hey y'all welcome back i'm mama doctor
jones a board certified ob gyn a mod 4 i
have attended three of my own births one
of my births produced two children and
thousands of other humans births for
some reason today i have decided we are
going to watch animals birth i can't
even see it with a straight face you are
going to learn some very wild facts
particularly about a hyena
height just there's a fact about hyenas
in this that i don't think most of you
probably know so stick around and make
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the first birth we're watching is a
giraffe and i don't think it is this
giraffe birth but i wonder if anybody
else has the memory of everybody on the
internet waiting for that one draft to
give birth everybody was really excited
and the whole time all i could think of
like how horrible it would be to be
waiting to have a baby and there's a
camera on you and everybody in the world
is watching and waiting for your baby to
come was its name april april the
giraffe that sounds right i don't
remember someone comment down below and
tell me when tyra the giraffe delivered
her calf the birth process was very much
by the book
after a pregnancy lasting 14 to 15
months giraffes deliver standing up 15
months feels like forever to be pregnant
animal gestations are actually roughly
associated with their size so african
elephants have the longest gestation at
645 days which is almost two years can
you imagine being pregnant for almost
two years i can't i don't want to thank
you i will pass we saw first one foot
and the second foot came out and it was
probably about an hour before um we saw
just a little bit of movement and then a
tongue and an
upper lip and then gradually out clean
the face
and the front legs have been flexing two
feet and a face is a human
obstetrician's nightmare presentation
and she may rest up for a little bit
right now but it's not going to take too
much more once she starts pushing this
time and we get to the shoulders
does anyone else feel like that's a long
fall i mean i know nature designed them
this way it's fine but giraffes are kind
of tall and to enter into this world
just dropping from that height it seems
horrifying to me it says hey maria
my ears are wiggling
he says i've done this so many times now
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that does not look okay i know it's okay
but it doesn't look okay
it just
fell ahead first tyra immediately began
washing her new infant who picked up her
head and took her first look around
within minutes the calf began to cut for
the first time in the wild it is
essential that newborn giraffes stand up
quickly in order to help them evade
predators
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it's so cute and so sad
it took the calf a few tries but after
about an hour she was standing on her
own and nursing from mom
ah it's so cute
and they learned to stand up and walk
within an hour that's so impressive it
took my baby a whole year my god all
right the next one on the list is a
seahorse and as i'm sure many of you
know sea horses are extremely unique
because the male seahorses actually give
birth i know this fact because trans men
having babies often in their community
will refer to themselves as sea horse
dads however i also know this fact
because my nine-year-old is obsessed
with animals and she knows
every obscure animal fact you could
imagine and has taught me this when she
was like five
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how many are there
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up to 2
000 babies what my mind is blown i had
no idea they would have 2 000 seahorses
at a time that daycare bill is gonna be
through the roof
oh fewer than five and a thousand
survive to adulthood this poor dad just
worth two thousand seahorses and only
ten of them will probably make it i
don't know if i'm gonna be able to
recover from this video
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that is not what i expected it to look
like but there you go 2 000 miniature
seahorses the next one on our list is
a kangaroo kangaroos are quite
interesting basically they birth a fetus
which then crawls into the pouch and
attaches itself and grows into a
kangaroo it's really wild and i haven't
seen these videos somebody picked them
out for me to watch but i hope that this
is one that shows the process of the
fetus kangaroo basically crawling into
the pouch so that it can gestate it's
really wild
here in australia this baby red kangaroo
called a joey has been out of the pouch
for just two days
they're actually kind of dangerous i
think red kangaroos are like extremely
able to
murder you and mom is getting ready to
give birth again
how does this work well let's find out
okay they said the other one had been
out for two days and now she's having
another one a pink kangaroo embryo the
size of a lima bean pops out
it's blind and deaf and yet somehow it's
got to find its way to the mother's
pouch its hind legs which will someday
allow the kangaroo to jump nearly 30
feet
are now just useless buds
it's going to have to drag itself
upwards six inches using its forelimbs
to climb through the forest of its
mother's thick fur will take about three
minutes
is it this crazy it's a fetus it is a
fetus it is a fetus and it came out to
migrate six inches to the pouch do you
know how far that is for a tiny teeny
tiny
tiny kangaroo fetus this blows my mind
this is so incredibly
strange and amazing and cool to me once
inside the pouch it searches out mom's
nipples and starts feeding
this embryo will remain latched onto one
nipple for 34 weeks once it leaves the
pouch it'll continue to suckle from its
mother for another four months this is
so wild okay that's almost exactly the
same as a human gestation so can you
imagine a human fetus
exiting
at six weeks
they look relatively similar to that
making its way to your nipple and
growing on your nipple for the next 30
plus weeks like
i i'm sorry i can't kangaroo mothers win
for
miraculous birthing and baby growing
techniques this is incredible now here's
the amazing part
this tiny pink critter was actually
conceived many months ago
in an earlier stage it remained in a
kind of suspended animation called a
diapause
while mother tended to the youngster
that's now outside the pouch
the mother kangaroo now produces two
separate and distinct kinds of milk
one for the embryo the other for joey
how i ne are there any veterinarians on
youtube or like
zoologists or something who can make a
full video about kangaroo conception and
gestation at birth because my mind is
just blown so they stay in a pause of
diapods which means they grow a certain
amount and then they basically just stop
it's like a sea monkey you know a sea
monkey will
it can be like frozen in a dry sea
monkey egg for
hundreds of years or something crazy
like that but this is a mammal how does
that happen where do they go where are
they stored how does the body decide if
it's gonna store it or have the fetus
crawl to the pouch i need to know more i
had seen that video before but i didn't
know these facts somebody find me
someone to make a video about this
once she reaches sexual maturity the
female breeds for eight to twelve years
in times of drought she doesn't breed
but otherwise she keeps her cycle of
diapas embryos and joeys going strong
the dominant male having won the right
to woo mom claims his mate i feel like
that female kangaroos like
uh
excuse me what are you doing
but the dominant male scoffs at this
upstart
hear that
that's the sound of a dominant male
kangaroo scoffing
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i can't
oh my gosh
that's the sound of a dominant male
kangaroo scoffing that needs to be a
tick tock sound the result of this
mating will produce an embryo
i don't want to see the mating that's
not what we're reacting to here nope
nope the next one is a kiwi bird which i
feel is extremely applicable to my life
right now as we have recently moved to
new zealand for work i have never seen a
kiwi in person but i understand they
smell like mushrooms that is what i've
heard i've also never seen a kiwi birth
i thought they would just hatch out of
eggs so this should be interesting
imagine giving birth to a 24 pound baby
that's three times the size of an
average human newborn
ouch i don't want to think about that
thank you for kiwi birds giant chicks
are the norm females lay a single egg up
to 20 of their body weight she hasn't
eaten for several days
this x-ray photograph shows the huge
size of the egg there's almost no room
in the abdomen for food
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what that egg is like as big as the bird
what is happening is that real no wonder
their borderline extinct my god i
wouldn't want to lay eggs either my
friends her mate makes an even bigger
investment
north island males take so charge of the
clutch and are tied to the nest for a
marathon three months
and they have to exist on a very reduced
diet they can only afford brief foraging
expeditions from the burrow it didn't
occur to me until i was editing this but
they just said the female bird can't eat
because the egg is so huge it like
prevents the bird from eating and then
they have to lay that egg
and then they said
but the partner contributes even more
by sitting on the nest for three months
her mate makes an even bigger investment
all the praise for doing the bare
minimum
the next one is a sloth
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i don't understand that i'm having a
kristen bell moment joke but kristen
ball follows me on instagram so
cool story
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stop it's going to give birth hanging in
a tree upside down you've got to be
kidding me
this is incredible
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ah that's so weird how does it do that
hanging from the tree i can't it's so
cool oh my gosh that's so amazing also
it said it it eats the umbilical cord i
often hear people say oh humans are the
only ones that don't eat their placenta
this is why we should eat our placentas
and i just have to say i don't recommend
eating your placenta there's nothing
that would indicate that that would be
beneficial to you there's also potential
harm there however the reason we are the
only animals that don't regularly eat
our placentas is because we don't have
natural predators who are smelling them
out to eat our babies this is a
sacrifice that animal
birthers make which we are not required
to make if you would like to
you do you tourists
but i don't think there's any medical
benefit to it and there are potential
harms
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it's so cute okay the last one is the
hyena the actual last one is a desert
spider and absolutely not going to
happen karen who helps me
organize content for videos must not be
aware that i have a terrible problem
with spiders but i can't watch that i
will link it below
if you have some kind of
masochistic interest in watching a
spider
have babies but i can't do it hyena
let's do the hyena speaking of birth
canals
the spotted hyena has an interesting one
females have phallic-like genitalia
the scientific term for this is pseudo
penis
and they give birth out of this
pseudo-penis hyenas give birth through a
pseudo-penis if we weren't demonetized
before we most certainly are now which
will sometimes rip apart in the process
it's not only painful it can be lethal
in fact about 15
of first-time mothers die giving birth
well that was some interesting facts it
didn't actually show a hyena given birth
but now i must look that up because
why would we not
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it's like
hanging off of the tail
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is it hanging by the umbilical cord
that's terrible
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oh my gosh
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am i the only one who had no idea about
this pseudo-penis hyena thing how have i
gone this long in reproductive spaces
and how do i know so many obscure animal
facts and i never knew that hyenas had a
pseudo-penis that they gave birth
through i don't i don't even know what
to say i i don't know if i wanted to
learn that like maybe i was supposed to
go my whole life without knowing that
and now it's ruined but now i know and i
can't unsee or unthink that and i don't
know what to do with this information
what do i do with this information i
wish i wouldn't have watched that you
know
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okay y'all i hope that you learned
something today it was the first and
what if you would like it to be will be
a series of watching
animals
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