The animal kingdom is full of devoted parents, whose child rearing skills are incredible, shocking, and gross! Some parents, like our guest Steph Williams, would give you the shirts off their backs, and others would give you the skin off their backs... literally.




Footnotes: 
Horned marsupial frog
Horned marsupial frog with eggs (warning, yucky)
Blue poison dart frog with tadpole on his back
Suriname toads (warning, trypophobia trigger)
Killdeer mating
Killdeer faking injury
Rhea dad with babies
Octopus mothers
Cotton topped tamarin
Barbary macaque
Elephant showing off her baby to rescuers

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The animal kingdom is full of devoted parents, whose child rearing skills are incredible, shocking, and gross! Some parents, like our guest Steph Williams, would give you the shirts off their backs, and others would give you the skin off their backs... literally. Footnotes: <ol>
<li><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Gastrotheca_cornuta_V.jpg%20">Horned marsupial frog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTZ3L7H1bu0SAyMmv_6jpbAsz35lRJ8M3qi3w&amp;usqp=CAU">Horned marsupial frog with eggs (warning, yucky)</a></li>
<li><a href="%20https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_chuDm2K248/maxresdefault.jpg">Blue poison dart frog with tadpole on his back</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/10/animals-halloween-bats-scary-freaky/#:~:text=It's%20no%20joke%20for%20a,Museum%20of%20Los%20Angeles%20County.">Suriname toads (warning, trypophobia trigger)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Killdeer_mating_-_Texas_-_USA_H8O4449_%2815642291685%29.jpg">Killdeer mating</a></li>
<li><a href="%20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UCKnC1L_Rc">Killdeer faking injury</a></li>
<li><a href="%20https://process.images.nathab.com/A6dTpd53SmIg0pBfJJhgAz/resize=width:1908/quality=value:60/cache=expiry:31536000/compress/https://www.nathab.com/uploaded-files/Beforeyougo/South-America/Patgaonia/patagoniarhea-header-2880x861.jpg">Rhea dad with babies</a></li>
<li><a href="%20https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/06/02/136860918/the-hardest-working-mom-on-the-planet">Octopus mothers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/665c8fed94591f608b3bb3dfad6fb630a2834c5b/0_36_3543_2126/master/3543.jpg?width=700&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=70d1b87fc8f6b25e11916439089bfd03">Cotton topped tamarin</a></li>
<li><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Macaca_sylvanus.Mother_and_baby.jpg/1200px-Macaca_sylvanus.Mother_and_baby.jpg">Barbary macaque</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLvHLnmo9uo">Elephant showing off her baby to rescuers</a></li>
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We take a critter’s eye view to explore how animal behavior parallels humans. Join comedians and science-lovers as we get inside the minds of animals

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Parents of the Year Awards

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