Why do animals have more babies than humans?

Answer 1

Dogs are bred from Wolves. Wolves only are only fertile once per year, and a strong pack hierarchy ensures that, usually, only the alpha pair in a wolf pack breeds, maintaining a low, stable rate of growth.

Dogs were bred for a variety of purposes, including hunting, herding, pest control and war. Man needed to be able to breed dogs faster, and the trait that makes dogs fertile throughout the year was thus desirable and incorporated into dogs. Further, the tendancies of wolves, including strong pack bonds, were changed rather significantly; humans became the dominant pack leaders but did not act as pack alphas would; pack alphas would instill strong, resolute discipline to prevent the lower-ranking pack members from breeding; humans do not abide by this.

Physically, dogs are much shorter-lived than humans (10-15 years versus 75 years), have shorter gestation periods (2 months compared with 9 months), and have litters of several pups whereas humans normally only have one baby at a time.

Answer 2

Dogs are made to carry a litter at a time. Nature (or God if you prefer) seems to have decided that raising human babies takes more work than raising puppies. Since there are greater consequences and more care is required, human females tend to have less infants at a time.

Answer 3

Many animals fit in that statement and many do not. Horses, zebras, antelopes, giraffes, bears, elephants and rhino all normally only carry one baby. I guess it all depends on the physique of the animal.

Answer 4

Animals have no worries that's why or you could say animals only care their childrens till they start hunting by themselves .

Answer 5

You are misinformed, humans produce babies, not puppies.

Answer 6

IT's a normal and common method of survival. They have as many puppies as possible in the hopes that at least one, if not two, will survive no matter what happens.