Some animals really savour the home comforts that come with staying with mum and dad for a long time.

Beneath, we've picked out 19 animals that have a very close and long-lasting bond with their loving mothers.

i. African Elephants

African Elephant
Elephant dogie, Serengeti, Tanzania TANZANIA - JULY 24: Elephant calf feeding with its mother in Serengeti, Tanzania. Tim Graham/Getty Images/Getty Images

Female elephants have the longest gestation menses of whatever mammal (22 months), and later a very long pregnancy mums have no time to rest. Baby elephants are not merely born nearly bullheaded but they rely on their trunks and mothers for everything, their mums will usually nurse them for four to half dozen years.

In a phenomenon known as "allomothering," other females in the community assistance to care for the dogie. Females will stay with their natal herd for the remainder of their lives, just males leave the group between the ages of 9 and18.

African elephants live, on average, between sixty and 70 years.

2. African Lions

African Lion and her cub
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Lionesses tin can requite nascence to cubs throughout the twelvemonth and they will fiercely expect afterwards them until they can fend for themselves when they are almost 16 months old.

The cubs will stay with their mums until they are two or three years sometime, but female person lions stay with their sisters and daughters for the rest of their lives.

The average lifespan of a female African lion is betwixt 10 and xv years.

three. Alligators

Baby Alligator
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Female alligators are very protective of their young and when it is time for their babies to hatch, mothers will comport each egg in her jaws from the nest to the h2o to protect them from predators. They volition stay looking later them after nigh a twelvemonth.

Alligators alive, on average, between 30 and 50 years.

4. Chimpanzees

Chimpanzees
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The maternal bond is then potent that Chimpanzees dear and care for their female parent and vice versa even after they abound up into adults.

5. Dolphins

Dolphins
Dolphin Calf Born At SeaWorld San Diego SAN DIEGO, CA - October 20: In this handout photo provided by SeaWorld San Diego, Sadie, a xiii-twelvemonth-old bottlenose dolphin at SeaWorld San Diego, swims with her newborn calf at the marine park's Dolphin Stadium October xx, 2014 in San Diego, California. The dogie, born on Sat, Oct. 18 at 3:32 p.m., is strong and appears to be in good wellness. She is nursing regularly and continues to bail with its female parent. This is the 80th bottlenose dolphin born at SeaWorld San Diego. Mike Aguilera/SeaWorld San Diego via Getty Images/Getty Images

Dolphins are a species that have a caring, almost maternal behaviour towards their own and others. Non surprisingly, most dolphins feed their babies their rich breast milk for ii to three years.

The average life expectancy of dolphins varies by species, simply is generally betwixt 40 and lx years.

seven. Greyness kangaroo

Grey Kangaroos
Kangaroo Kangaroos are the largest marsupial surviving on earth today. They are well known for their mode of movement; hopping on their hind legs whilst using their big, muscular tail for balance. These Kangaroos are having a late afternoon snack before dusk. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Wed 21st May 2014. Steve Christo/Corbis via Getty Images/Getty Images

Grey Kangaroos have cursory pregnancies; later on 21 to 38 days, they give nascence to a joey that volition stay in their mother's pouch until they are nine months former. Just fifty-fifty after getting out of the pouch, it takes 1 year to get self dependent so it is up to their mums to look afterward them full time.

Kangaroos can alive for about xviii years in the wild.

8. Giraffes

Giraffes
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A giraffe is an beast that can exist pregnant while they are nursing the previous ones and mother giraffes spend most of their life either nursing or pregnant.

Giraffes volition enjoy the visitor of their mothers up to 2 years, merely female giraffes will occasionally travel with their mum until the parent dies.

Giraffes can alive for about thirty years in the wild.

9. Gazelles

Gazelle
A two-calendar week-old Mhorr gazelle (Gazella dama mhorr) is fed by its animal-tender, at the Budapest Zoo Park and Botanical Gardens in Budapest on May v, 2009. The gazelle infant, born on April 21, 2009, is being bottle fed after its mother was unable to do and then. ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

To go on her calves safe from predators, a female gazelle will hide her babies in tall grasses until they are two months one-time, from then onwards the calf will spend more time with the mum and less time in hiding. Around this time and while even so nursing, they besides join a herd.

When males reach boyhood, they bring together a bachelor group and the mother will terminate following him.

The boilerplate lifespan of a gazelle is nearly eight years in nature, and upward to 15 years in captivity.

x. Gorillas

Gorillas
SYDNEY, Commonwealth of australia - Nov eighteen: Female parent Frala and her Western Lowland Gorilla infant Fakiri are seen at feeding time at Taronga Zoo on November eighteen, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Getty Images/Jenny Evans/Getty Images

Only like human females, gorillas are significant for about 8 to 9 months and in one case they give birth, their babies will stay in their full time care until the age of three to 4 years one-time. The same corporeality of time a female gorilla waits betwixt pregnancies.

The boilerplate lifespan of a gorilla is between 35 and 40 years.

xi. Koalas

Koalas
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 02: Koala joey Humphrey is comforted by mother Willow at Taronga Zoo on March 02, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Eight-month-onetime Humphrey is the kickoff koala joey built-in at Taronga Zoo in over a yr, and only recently emerged from his female parent Willow'southward pouch. Koala joeys stay in their female parent's pouch for up to 6 months and it is only from effectually that age that they begin to emerge and adhere themselves to their mother's back. Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images/Getty Images

Koala joeys stay about six months within their mother's pouch feeding on milk which helps them in forming their ears, eyes (they are born blind) and fur. By the time the baby koala is 12 months erstwhile, they leave their mothers to find their ain territory.

The average lifespan of a gorilla is between 13 and 18 years.

12. Mouthbrooding Fish

Mouthbrooding Fish
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The species of fish defined every bit mouthbrooders protect their eggs by keeping them in their mouths. Mouthbrooders include sea catfish, cardinalfish, pikeheads or jawfishes amongst others.

As soon as the eggs are fertilized, mothers don't swallow in social club to avoid swallowing them. After they have hatched, some mouthbrooders will continue to employ their mothers' mouth for protection.

13. Orangutans

Orangutans
Espana-ANIMALS-ORANGUTAN-BABY A Bornean orangutan called Suli holds its newborn baby at their enclosure at the Bioparc zoological park in Fuengirola on August 12, 2021. JORGE GUERRERO/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

Orangutans have to wait for seven to 8 years between births, the longest nascence interval of any mammal.

Later on the nascency of a infant orangutan and for nearly 4 months, the infant never loses physical contact with the mum. For the kickoff two years of their lives, they completely depend on their mothers who may nurse them until they are six years former and have learned all the survivals skills required to manage on their own.

Like to gorillas, the average lifespan of an orangutan is between 35 and 40 years.

xiv. Orcas

Orcas
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Born into highly bonded family groups chosen pods, female orcas stay with their mothers for the residue of their lives. The males do get out to mate but they eventually come back.

Orcas tin live up to 90 years, then in ane pod there will be many generations travelling together.

15. Polar Bears

Polar Bears
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When a babe cub is built-in, the dedicated polar acquit mother never leaves her cubs until they are about two-and-a-one-half years old.

During this period, she fully trains them to acquire survival skills. While pregnant, polar acquit females spend nine months sheltering in a small den in preparation for birth where they can become four to 8 months without eating.

17. Penguins

Emperor Penguins
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After an egg is laid, mother emperor penguin leaves information technology with the father who keeps it safe and warm. The mother then travels to the ocean to reach fish and returns to the hatching site to feed the hatched chicks via regurgitation.

The penguin chicks need their parents for survival and they will stay with them for about vi months.

The average lifespan of an emperor penguin is about 20 years.

18. Tamarins

Tamarins
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The Southward American primates enjoy living in family unit groups and babies will stay with their parents until they are immature adults.

19. Wolves

Wolves
BELGIUM-ANIMAL-ZOO A female regurgitates food for wolf cubs from Canada in their enclosure at Pairi Daiza creature park in Brugelette, western Belgium, on August xv, 2019. PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP via Getty Image/Getty Images

Wolf cubs stay with their mother for about 10 months, the age the cubs are old plenty to hunt with the adults. The female wolf is a very nurturing female parent and keeps her pups in a den for iii to four weeks earlier assuasive them out into the light.

Wolves packs usually include the male person and female parent, and their pups from the last few years.

The boilerplate lifespan of a wolf is about xv years.

xx. Wolf Spiders

Wolf Spider
A garden wolf spider (Lycosa) carries her brood of over 100 babies on her dorsum for protection at Sydney Wild animals World on July eighteen, 2008. The baby spiders will stay on her back for 30-40 days earlier molting and moving off or staying and risk being cannibalised. TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

Female person wolf spiders can carry up to 100 babies in lodge to protect them from predators, they really are protective mums and when the spiderlings hatch they stay attached to them for several days before scattering.