Do any animals mate and stay with their family?

Question

like, the mom usually does,

but does the male in any cases?

like stay forever as a big happy family?

Answer 1

Foxes, beavers, wolves, and meerkats do, I'm not sure about any others.

Answer 2

Wolves do.

Answer 3

Foxes and wovles do

Answer 4

Humans do - sometimes.

Answer 5

Grey wolves, red wolves, Ethiopian wolves, red foxes, bat-eared foxes, black-backed jackals, side-striped jackals, golden jackals, African wild dogs, Kirk's dik-diks, silvery marmosets, and (sometimes) humans are some monogamous mammals that spring to mind. Many birds are monogamous.

Answer 6

Humans (sometimes!)

Foxes mate for life, as do albatross and many other animals but I'm afraid I don't know the full list. Foxes and albatross definitely do though. Sometimes, even last year's cubs come and help look after the new fox cubs! Dolphins and elephants stay together in family groups, but for elephants at least it's only the girls that stick together - the boys go off as soon as they grow up!

Answer 7

I believe that lions do, as well as most gorillas.

Answer 8

It depends on the animal.  Some animals will lay eggs and leave the nest never to return but the young ones instictually know what to do.  Mammals more commonly stay with family and it seems that the smarter the animal the more family oriented they are.

Answer 9

I am not sure what you mean by this question. Are you asking if animals mate outside the family unit, but then stay with the family to rear their young?

Lions do this to some degree. The female lions in a pride are usually related to each other (mothers and sisters, aunts, daughters) as the juvenile males are driven out by the dominant male before sexual maturity. This ensures that there is no inbreeding within the group between mother-son, father-daughter pairs. As the related females stay together, they are willing to nurse and nurture the cubs of others. This is right from an evolutionary perspective, as the females are preserving their matrilineal genetic line by doing this. Unrelated females would have no benefit, from an evolutionary standpoint, of preserving the offspring of other genetic lines.

Unless the animals are raised in a group setting, like lion prides, this creche type of childrearing doesn't occur. Solitary females in other species hold a territory, and mate with any males who wander through. They raise any offspring alone, without the help of siblings or of their mate.  

Answer 10

Beavers, coyotes, barn owls, swans, condors, bald eagles, golden eagles, prairie voles, black vultures, wolves, gibbons, pigeons, French Angle Fish, bats, etc. are a few.

Man, is by the way not a monogamous species, and would even be laughable to include man.    But of course we already knew that.

None are probably  completely monogamous.  Many cheat.  Ha.   But the difference between lower animals and man, is that animals other than man, don't know any better.  Man does.

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