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i don't i don't like it that's so cool
but also that's so horrifying water
birth has become increasingly popular
over the past couple of decades and
that's why today we are reacting to some
water births with a twist i'm mom and
doctor jones a board certified ob gyn
and mobt4 and today we're going through
some animals who have their babies in
water last time i did an ob gyn reacts
to animal birth to all absolutely loved
it and i
also loved it but was a little bit
horrified i wish i wouldn't have watched
that you know so today we're doing it
again
the first one is a mouth brooding fish
believe it or not there are certain
tropical fish that carry fertilized eggs
inside of their mouths
they continue to hold these unborn
babies well after they hatch this can be
found being done in both the paternal
and maternal members of the species
once the babies hatch they will then
start feeding on the remnants of the
yolks for up to a month
up to a month they stay in the mouth
after they hatch for a month it is wild
enough that the eggs
stay in the mouth that's i'm glad i
don't have to do that but also the
babies how do the fish eat if they have
a mouthful of tiny
fish
what what if they accidentally eat the
babies
the young hatchlings are fed this way in
order to help develop far more durable
more efficient and heavier offspring
that are more likely to hit maturity
this way they just
did he just
they came out and then
they all just went back in i don't
that fish has more control over its
thousand babies than i have over my four
kids
the batch of babies becomes more
equipped for the world ahead of them
that was one of the coolest things i've
ever seen i had absolutely no idea that
that happened like i have never heard
uh that this is a thing and i'm sure a
lot of you are like of course everybody
knows about mouth burning fishes but i
did not so that was that was really
interesting to me the next one is a
suriname toad unlike other toads the
sauron toad has an unusual way of
reproducing i am just doing some final
edits and my editor had who
welcome to the team we're
so happy that you're here added in
tryptophobia warning which i didn't even
know what that is but apparently it's a
fear of
a lot of closely spaced holes and
that is very applicable
males call to the females by making a
clicking sound underwater
a willing female releases 60 to 100 eggs
and the male fertilizes them and pushes
the eggs onto her back where they stick
to her skin
during the next few days her skin grows
up and around the eggs forming a
honeycomb structure of pockets and
eventually encloses them completely
after hatching stop it right now
that was cool and cute until it said the
skin
grows around them i'm sorry
what
that is
horrifying
oh that gives me the ick i don't like it
i don't like it the young ride on her
back for three to four months continuing
to develop under her skin
when ready the fully formed toadlets
push and squirm to loosen the female's
skin
the puck stop
ah i don't i don't like it it's on her
back open to reveal the snouts and
waving feet of the toadlets
when they're ready they pop out of their
holes and head for the water surface to
breathe and begin life on their own
the little toads can start snapping at
food right away and they do not care if
that food happens to be a sibling
the mother then sheds her skin ready for
the next breeding season
i am speechless they just said they
might eat each other and then she sheds
her skin so she's ready to do it again
which is highly efficient ma'am but oh
my gosh that was like something out of
an alien movie i i do not i ca um
wow we're gonna move right along to the
sand tiger shark
the sand tiger shark has evolved a far
more extreme response to a dwindling
food supply
embryonic cannibalism
when its own yolk sac runs dry
a sand tiger embryo no longer than a
human finger
will rely on hunting instinct
and a set of tiny primitive teeth
the how is that real also how did they
get these videos this is wild but it's
little teeth i don't know if that was
cute or horrifying these are no milk
teeth
they
are for killing
sand tigers produce one or two embryos
every day
after the eldest grows its teeth
it begins to hunt down its brothers and
sisters
although blind
the shark can sense his younger siblings
before they can pose a threat
it's time for a series of preemptive
strikes
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this is
scary so first off it's really cool that
they have embryos that are growing at
different gestational ages like that's
really scientifically interesting to me
and i didn't know that that's how sharks
reproduce i don't know if that's all the
way across the board but also how are
they getting these videos inside of the
womb of a shark i just that's so cool
but also that's so horrifying it's
attacking i just
that's wild
the once crowded womb
has become home no to just a single
living embryo it's so sad
now there's food aplenty
it can gorge at will on their yokes
and their remains
so weird i'm really glad that human
embryos don't eat each other in the
uterus from this point on
the mother will produce no further
embryos
instead
all her resources go to her surviving
offspring
this is footage from an actual sand
tiger womb
how
the mother continues to produce
unfertilized eggs for her maturing
embryo to eat
it continues to grow in this eggy soup
swallowing up the yolks along with the
bodies of its less fortunate siblings
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i'm sorry but that looks fake it's just
so crazy that they can take that now i
feel like i need to go research the
structure of where a shark keeps its
babies because this is really wild i i
had no idea it was like this it's like a
tiny house that they just hang out in
like here's your temporary ocean inside
and i'll provide you with some food and
eggs and siblings to eat until you're
ready to come out it's so crazy because
like in human gestation you don't do any
of that on the inside right like you
don't eat you don't get your nutrients
from eating anything it comes through
the umbilical cord so it's crazy to me
that this animal is just like doing its
normal function that it will do when it
comes out but on the inside it's just
wild i don't know it's so cool i don't
know how that's real i that's that's so
crazy i guess that's unique to a sand
tiger shark i'm not sure they made it
sound like it was specific to that type
of shark but do all sharks reproduce
like that do all sharks eat their
siblings inside i don't know all right
the next one is an eagle ray and i've
actually seen this one because i found
it on facebook instead of someone
getting it together for me and i said we
must include this in the water birth
video it's so good i call the eagle ray
a stingray in the entirety of this clip
i do in fact know they are different
animals i still do it so
i had no idea stingrays gave birth like
this like i probably would have guessed
that they hatch from an egg because i'm
apparently an idiot
first off if you've never seen how to
train your dragon you won't get this but
that looks exactly like the dragon on
how to train your dragon
and
also it is quite large for a newborn i
didn't expect it to be that big
the way he has to unroll his wings
because they've been like this reminds
me of babies when they're born breach so
babies who've been breached for a long
time often when they come out their legs
will still like want to sit right up in
front of their face so they look like
little like legs over their head it's so
cute
oh he's such a good swimmer
i already he's upside down turn over
he's like my wings don't work right
oh he's cute he's not as big as i
thought i thought he was bigger but he's
not as big as i thought oh another one
he's upside down too oh it's so cute
they have to
learn how to stay the right way i'd
never even considered that that's so
cute
that was really cool i think that
stingrays are really interesting animals
and i love how they can stay the right
way so the next one is a hippo birth
which i didn't know that hippos gave
birth in the water until right this
second but they apparently do
i cannot help but realize how incredibly
similar that looks to how i felt when i
was in labor like i really empathize
with this hippo right now
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relatively uneventful baby came out
pretty quickly but now it's underwater
and i'm assuming they need to get it out
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she got it out and just pushed it now
they're just snuggling oh my gosh this
is the sweetest animal birth i've ever
seen i love hippo birds
they're just snuggling
oh
it's nursing under water what that is so
crazy how long can they hold their
breath i don't know enough about hippos
this is so cool
i loved that one
okay so the next one is a hammerhead
shark birth and to be fair it's not
actually a water birth but it should
have been and then humans intervened
with the process it seems so let's watch
this one it's piling buddy it's heads
right on the piling on my side so go on
the back side of the piling
on the other side
so it appears that this shark probably
came into more shallow water to give
birth and now they have pulled it out
maybe thinking that it was in danger i'm
not sure
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and then they're just pulling them out
and taking the babies away i don't like
this one what are you doing with the
babies they probably need to stay i
don't know what the normal
postnatal process of a hammerhead shark
is but i i don't know that you should be
just this is i don't like it i don't
like this one
well that was an interesting experience
but i don't think we learned a whole lot
about hammerhead birth and it also just
made me a little sad and a little angry
so maybe they actually thought that the
shark was in danger i don't have enough
of the backstory of what happened but uh
humans
and for the last animal birth we are
going to do my favorite animal which is
a dolphin and i have admittedly seen
dolphin births before because i love
bert and i love dolphins so we're going
to enjoy this one together
boys going out tail first do they always
come out tail first i don't know the
answer to that if you know the answer to
that leave it in the comments down below
this is actually quite a bit longer
process than i thought
i mean not that it should be short i
just mean like the tails out and it's
taking a long time to go from tail to
rest of the baby
oh
that's a really big dolphin
it never ceases to amaze me how
big a baby looks when it comes out as
compared to when it was on the inside
humans too
and also i'm really impressed by the
swimming
obviously not a perfect swimmer yet but
doing remarkably well i mean
that is pretty impressive always his
little dorsal fin oh my gosh it's so
cute
and mom's pushing him up to get air oh i
love it so cute dolphins are the coolest
animals
i didn't know their dorsal fins
were
like that when they were born i mean it
makes a lot of sense because
it can't come out straight up that would
be
sounds like it probably would be very
difficult
but i just i guess i never even thought
about it so that's really cool i love
dolphins thanks for being here today
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