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How Animals Have Babies

Know that different animals have their babies in different ways — some lay eggs (birds, reptiles, fish, insects), some give birth to live young (most mammals) — and that babies may look like miniature adults or look very different from their parents

Typical age: 57 years

If your child sees a nest with eggs in a nature programme, can they explain that birds lay eggs and the babies hatch out, but dogs and cats have their babies born alive?

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