My Mom Gerbil ate its babies Is she crazy?

Question

I went to the cage and found babies then an hour later half of them we're dead(there was little tails and paws in the cage) she has already had song about 2 months ago but why did she eat them?

Answer 1

gerbil Parents eat dead young ones to clean the cage and to get protein

Answer 2

Well....

um, i heard that some creatures eat there own young if they die during birth. But i don't think that a gerbil would eat her own young. Check if she has RABIES. lol  im joking

Answer 3

Mother gerbils will sometimes do this if she feels the environment was unsafe for her young. Have any loud noises happened lately? Moving of the cage? Moving the young too soon? Also, she will do this if something becomes wrong with the pups so that her environment doesn't becomed diseased with what ever they had. Sorry :( better luck with the next bunch!

Answer 4

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