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elleng

(130,865 posts) Mon Dec 19, 2016, 06:18 PM Dec 2016

Pregnancy Changes the Brain in Ways that May Help Mothering.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/health/pregnancy-brain-change.html?

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Pregnancy Changes the Brain in Ways that May Help Mothering. (Original Post) elleng Dec 2016 OP

Not surprising. Buckeye_Democrat Dec 2016 #1

Thank you! elleng Dec 2016 #2

You're welcome. I might have been wrong to assume that leopard recently had babies, though. Buckeye_Democrat Dec 2016 #3

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)

1. Not surprising.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2016, 06:22 PM

Dec 2016

Case in point:

elleng

(130,865 posts)

2. Thank you!

Reply to Buckeye_Democrat (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 19, 2016, 06:29 PM

Dec 2016

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)

3. You're welcome. I might have been wrong to assume that leopard recently had babies, though.

Reply to elleng (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 19, 2016, 06:37 PM

Dec 2016

I just watched it again and the narrator called her young, so maybe she never had a litter?

There's still lots of cases where female animals show strong motherly instincts, even toward other species, after their pregnancies.

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