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Why do mother sharks try to eat their babies after they are born?
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∙ 16y ago
While the mother shark is giving birth she seems to be very calm and leaves the babies alone. It is a process of giving birth, and she ignores the babies. After she is done birthing them, she moves on, and leaves the babies to their own defenses. The mother does not raise the babies at all. If she ever saw them again, she would treat them like any other shark, and if she wanted to attack them, she would.
There are sharks that lay eggs, and they don't stay and defend them either. Basically, the babies are on their own and head for shallow water and protection of plants, reefs, or mangrove roots to survive. It is all instinct. They have also been tagged as babies and found to move their area during bad storms, such as hurricanes. When the storm is over, they come back to their safe areas.
Even in the womb, babies protect themselves by eating the smaller offspring in the womb, so when they are born, they can protect themselves pretty well.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 15y agoBaby sharks leave their moms because when the sharks are born, they are immediatly fully capable of taking care of themselves. They don't need their moms.
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∙ 15y agoSharks are born as miniature adults. Apart from the size of their prey they behave just like the grown ones. They don't need a parent around to help them with anything.
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Do baby sharks drink milk from their mother?
no, sharks are fish not mammals and rarely give live birth. They do not produce "milk" for their youngAnswerNo, sharks are fish, in that they breath water using gills, wheareas mammals are categorized with land animals, which breath air using lungs. Sharks give live birth; in that perhaps most important sense they would fall into the category mammal. But sharks cannot produce milk, and mammal means giving milk in latin, although the name was derived a long time ago before modern science.
Do sharks take care of their young?
well some baby sharks eat fish....When the baby shark is in its mothers stomach it will eat its other brothers and sisters and when it is out of its mother stomach it will eat meat such as fish. But if it is a whale shark it would eat plankton.
What animals are raised by only the mother?
A hamster but if the hamster mother feels the babies are in danger she will eat them...
Do mommy guinea pigs eat their babies?
If the mother feels like she and her babies are in danger, she will eat them in an attempt to save them from becoming food for another animal.
Do mother guinea pigs eat their babies?
Yes, sometimes they do usually out of stress.
How do sharks eat in their mums belly?
Shark Babies start out in eggs. While in the egg the live on egg yolk. Some Sharks hatch inside their mother, and the unborn Sharks will eat each other.
How many babies do sharks have?
Sharks produce up to ten young ones. They hatch in the mothers womb and after the first baby has hatched they try to kill all the other unhatched babies and eat them. The strongest one that survives is born and the rest are all dead in the mother's womb.
Do sharks eat baby sharks?
Yes..and baby sharks eat their siblings when they are first born
Do sharks eat its own babies?
no
Do daddy sharks eat their toiung or mother sharks?
the mothers eat the children, but this is not in every species of sharks
Do tiger sharks eat their babies?
Yes mam./
Do swell sharks babies eat the spare eggs?
MBY
Do sharks eat each other in there mothers stomach?
No, sharks do not eat each other in their mother's stomachs.
How do hammerhead sharks protect their babies?
they dont they'll eat them even!
How long do Pika babies stay with their mother?
Pika babies are born with a natural hatred of their mother and with good reason: their mother usually tries to eat them. As soon as they are born the Pika babies will start running and the mother can snap them up at her leisure for sport.
Why do tiger sharks eat their babies?
Maybe it's part of their food chain
If mother sharks eat their babies is that called cannibalism?
yes The term "cannibalism" is also used in zoology to mean the act of any species consuming members of its own kind.
