"g. m." wrote:
>
> I never saw any of my males picking up pups and carring them. Yet many
> members have males which display these maternal behaviors. Is this due
> to inter uterine positions of te male?
>
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None of mine ever did either. They would wash them, keep
them warm, and even go check on them if they got stranded
outside the nest, but they would not pick one up. They were
more inclined to sit on a solitary pup to keep it warm than
to pick it up and return it to the nest!
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