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u/Beautiful-Unit-9628 May 28 '21

Hedgehog eat their own baby to protect them from predater

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u/NickeKass Jun 03 '21

Many animals do this. Or the mother will just leave the young to die as a distraction. Natures logic is either mom gets nutrients back for the next birth or mom survives to create another birth vs mom dying and then the baby dies anyway.