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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Here's to Mothers, Human and Animal
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:48
	Publish Date:		2019-05-13 05:00:00
	Description:		The Masked Biologist dedicates today’s Wildlife Matters to all the mothers out there, human and animal. Mother’s Day has come and gone. The one day a year when children turn their attention, however brief, to everything their mother has done and continues to do for them. I have kids, three kids, and it is a chore to get them to recognize their mother as much more than a housekeeper, cook, taxi driver, banker and occasionally entertainment director. I am sure I probably did the same when I was younger, one of six children my mom had to try to convert from diaper-filling babies to fully functioning responsible adults. She succeeded, in my estimation, despite significant odds against her (four boys and two girls). In the animal world, mothers come in all shapes and sizes, and their rearing skills vary greatly. Momma bears are always held up as examples of dangerously protective mothers. Bears really deserve a lot of credit; females birth and tend two to five cubs, nurse them in the winter
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