Nature's 7 meanest mommies
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Protective mama
We first showed the love to some of nature’s warm and fuzzy mothers, so now it’s a trip straight to the dark side: nature’s "meanest" mommies. You thought Joan Crawford was bad? “No wire hangers” is nothing compared to the schemes some mothers in the animal kingdom have devised. With plot lines that make Shakespeare’s most sadistic thoughts seem sweet, many a mom in nature resorts to abandonment, infanticide (often by eating her young, nice), adultery and murder. That’s a bad mommy. Although to be fair, they really don’t know any better — these are all behaviors developed through evolution to ensure the longevity of the species. It’s a matter of species survival trumping maternal instinct. Still, cannibalism? I think I’m grateful I’m not the runt of a hamster litter — or better yet, a hamster mom.
So in celebration of Mother’s Day and all the lovely things our mothers have done for us — like, not eating us — here’s a rogues’ gallery of some of nature’s seemingly most sinister mothers.
This story was written by Melissa Breyer. It originally appeared on Care2.com and is used here with permission.
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Comments
Tongue in cheek is a permissible approach to writing about the less appealing behaviors of animal moms. Not to mention, any newspaper pretty much any day of the week will include at least one grim article about less than appealing human parenting behaviors. And there's no humor in that at all, because we are supposed to be better and generally in those situations, the gene pool would be better served by the removal of the parent(s), rather than the offspring!
It is more than a little unfair to use such a word as 'mean' when describing a creature of nature. "Presence before thought."
Lionesses are ferocious to be certain, but mean? This indicates an mal-intention...
I am wondering if there is actually a Freudian slip present here on the part of the author for this Mother's Day; a complex perhaps; unresolved anger of some sort...
I doubt a lioness is mean.
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