--- title: Mammals and how they care for their young — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Mammals and how they care for their young», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: All mammals feed their babies with milk made in the mother's body, so every baby mammal needs its mother at the start of its life. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Mammals and how they care for their yo… # Mammals and how they care for their young Lesson 75 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/0/) — All mammals feed their babies with milk made in the mother's body, so every baby mammal needs its mother at the start of its life. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/1/) — Most mammals grow inside the mother and are born alive; marsupials such as kangaroos are born tiny and keep growing in the mother's pouch; and a few mammals, the platypus and the echidnas, lay eggs but still feed milk. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/2/) — Some babies, like foals and baby giraffes, are born with open eyes and can walk within hours; others, like kittens, puppies and human babies, are born helpless and need long care. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/3/) — Parents keep the young warm, clean and safe, and they teach them: a lioness shows her cubs how to hunt, and a young elephant learns where to find water from the older females of its herd. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/4/) — A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean; it crawls into its mother's pouch, drinks milk there for months, and only then hops out into the world. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/5/) — All mammals feed their young with milk. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/6/) — Mammals have hair or fur on their bodies. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/7/) — Most mammals give birth to live young. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/8/) — Marsupials, such as kangaroos and koalas, carry their tiny newborns in a pouch. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/9/) — The platypus and the echidnas are mammals that lay eggs. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/10/) — A newborn foal can stand and walk within a few hours of birth. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/11/) — A foal must walk soon so it can keep up with the herd and run from danger. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/12/) — Kittens and puppies are born with their eyes closed. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/13/) — Human babies need care from adults for many years, longer than almost any other animal. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/14/) — An elephant mother carries her baby for about 22 months before it is born. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/15/) — In an elephant herd, the older females help to look after the calves. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/16/) — Young mammals learn many skills, such as hunting, by watching and copying their parents. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/17/) — A blue whale calf drinks a huge amount of milk and puts on around 90 kilograms a day. - ← previous: [Fish, frogs and reptiles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/74-fish-frogs-reptiles/) - next →: [Trees and forests through the year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)