<ul><li>new animal parenting style called the “elephant mom,” is focuses on protection and encouragement the child. </li><li>Like giraffes, elephants share in the responsibility of caring and defending their young. Elephant moms will often come together to protect and save a baby elephant, even at their own risk.</li><li>Elephants are loving creatures and moms stay close to their babies, bringing them back to the fold if they wander away, bathing them, nursing them, and teaching them survival skills. </li><li> And elephants stay with their mothers for an average of 16 years. </li></ul>

Elephant 

<ul><li>The orangutan mother–infant bond is one of the most intense and intimate I’ve ever seen in any animal</li><li>Orangutan mothers carry their babies around until they are five years old and they can breast feed them until they are eight years old</li><li>When they do eventually leave “home,” the female orangutans will often come back for visits with their moms.</li><li>Young orangutans learn nearly everything they need to know from their mothers. </li></ul>

Orangutan

<ul><li>The cheetah mom is a hard-working single mother, having to raise between two and eight cubs at a time. </li><li>In addition to feeding and teaching them, she must protect them from lions, hyenas, and other predators. </li><li>To keep her litter safe, the mother cheetah moves her cubs to a new location every few days. </li><li>The babies nurse until they are about eight months old and then they begin to learn to stalk and hunt, getting lessons from mom and practice time with their siblings.</li></ul>

Cheetah

<ul><li>A mother polar bear must gain extra weight—more than 400 pounds—to ensure the fetus is not reabsorbed by her body</li><li>She doesn’t eat for a few months while she goes into a hibernation state before giving birth</li><li>Her cubs are tiny—just one pound—and helpless when born, but even as they get bigger, they stay near their moms for two to three years learning how to survive</li></ul>

Polar Bear

<ul><li>are highly protective of their young baby</li><li>after birth, they clean the baby, clear his nasal passages, and gentile cradled him</li></ul>

Gorilla

<ul><li>Giraffes gave birth after a pregnancy of 15 month</li><li>Since the young giraffes cannot run fast, its mother will hide it or leave it with other mother giraffe “babysitters”—known as a creche—while she looks for food</li><li>Like humans, [the baby giraffes] will start to miss their mother and will wait for her where she was last seen until she comes back</li><li>Like most moms, giraffes don’t get much sleep. They are always on guard, protecting themselves and their offspring, so they only get about 30 minutes of sleep a day, usually just a few minutes at a time.</li></ul>

Giraffe

Learning and understand animals motherhood 

These six amazing animal mothers protect and care for their adorable babies in such inspirational ways. And this video of Calaya and her baby Moke, from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, will show you why gorillas make the list.