Some animals really savor the home comforts that come with staying with mum and dad for a long fourth dimension.

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

one. African Elephants

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

Female elephants have the longest gestation period of any mammal (22 months), and afterward a very long pregnancy mums take no fourth dimension to rest. Babe elephants are not simply built-in nearly blind merely they rely on their trunks and mothers for everything, their mums will unremarkably nurse them for four to six years.

In a miracle known as "allomothering," other females in the customs help to care for the calf. Females will stay with their natal herd for the residue of their lives, but males leave the grouping between the ages of ix and18.

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

2. African Lions

African Lion and her cub
Republic of kenya-NATURE-Wild animals-POACHING A panthera leo cub walks with a female lion in the Mara Triangle, the northward western part of Masai Mara national reserve managed by Non profit organisation Mara Conservancy, in southern Kenya, on January 25, 2018. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images

Lionesses can give birth to cubs throughout the yr and they will fiercely expect afterward them until they tin fend for themselves when they are about 16 months old.

The cubs will stay with their mums until they are two or 3 years old, merely female person lions stay with their sisters and daughters for the residuum of their lives.

The boilerplate lifespan of a female person African lion is between 10 and 15 years.

iii. Alligators

Baby Alligator
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Female person alligators are very protective of their immature and when it is fourth dimension 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 subsequently them later on almost a twelvemonth.

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

4. Chimpanzees

Chimpanzees
GERMANY-ANIMALS-ZOO Chimpanzees delouse each other at the Zoom Erlebniswelt (World of experience) zoo in Gelsenkirchen, western Federal republic of germany on June 4, 2020. INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images

The maternal bond is so strong that Chimpanzees love and care for their mother and vice versa fifty-fifty later on they grow up into adults.

5. Dolphins

Dolphins
Dolphin Calf Built-in At SeaWorld San Diego SAN DIEGO, CA - Oct 20: In this handout photo provided by SeaWorld San Diego, Sadie, a 13-twelvemonth-quondam bottlenose dolphin at SeaWorld San Diego, swims with her newborn calf at the marine park's Dolphin Stadium October 20, 2014 in San Diego, California. The calf, born on Saturday, October. 18 at iii:32 p.m., is strong and appears to be in practiced health. She is nursing regularly and continues to bond with its mother. 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. Not surprisingly, most dolphins feed their babies their rich breast milk for two to three years.

The average life expectancy of dolphins varies past species, only is by and large between 40 and 60 years.

vii. Grey kangaroo

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

Gray Kangaroos have brief pregnancies; after 21 to 38 days, they requite birth to a joey that will stay in their mother'south pouch until they are ix months one-time. But even after getting out of the pouch, information technology takes one year to get self dependent so it is up to their mums to wait afterward them total time.

Kangaroos tin live for about 18 years in the wild.

8. Giraffes

Giraffes
FRANCE-ANIMAL-ZOO-GIRAFFE Three-month infant giraffe of Niger (Giraffa Camelopardalis) named "Kano" (down) eats bamboo past his mother "Dioni" (front), 17, and his father "Uzul, 9, at the zoological park "Zoo de la Fleche" in La Fleche, north-western France on May4, 2021. JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

A giraffe is an animal that tin 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 company of their mothers up to ii years, but female person giraffes will occasionally travel with their mum until the parent dies.

Giraffes can alive for about 30 years in the wild.

9. Gazelles

Gazelle
A 2-calendar week-erstwhile Mhorr gazelle (Gazella dama mhorr) is fed by its animate being-tender, at the Budapest Zoo Park and Botanical Gardens in Budapest on May 5, 2009. The gazelle baby, born on April 21, 2009, is beingness canteen fed afterwards its female parent was unable to do then. ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

To keep her calves rubber from predators, a female gazelle will hide her babies in tall grasses until they are two months quondam, from then onwards the dogie will spend more time with the mum and less time in hiding. Around this time and while still nursing, they also join a herd.

When males reach adolescence, they join a bachelor grouping and the mother will terminate following him.

The average lifespan of a gazelle is about eight years in nature, and up to 15 years in captivity.

ten. Gorillas

Gorillas
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 18: Female parent Frala and her Western Lowland Gorilla baby Fakiri are seen at feeding time at Taronga Zoo on November xviii, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Getty Images/Jenny Evans/Getty Images

Just similar human females, gorillas are pregnant for about eight to nine months and one time they give nascence, their babies will stay in their total time care until the age of iii to iv years one-time. The same amount of time a female person gorilla waits between pregnancies.

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

11. Koalas

Koalas
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 02: Koala joey Humphrey is comforted by female parent Willow at Taronga Zoo on March 02, 2021 in Sydney, Commonwealth of australia. Eight-month-old Humphrey is the first koala joey born at Taronga Zoo in over a year, and only recently emerged from his female parent Willow'southward pouch. Koala joeys stay in their mother's pouch for upwardly to 6 months and information technology is only from around that age that they brainstorm to emerge and adhere themselves to their mother'south back. Photograph past Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images/Getty Images

Koala joeys stay near half dozen months inside their mother'due south 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 former, they leave their mothers to find their own territory.

The boilerplate lifespan of a gorilla is between thirteen and xviii years.

12. Mouthbrooding Fish

Mouthbrooding Fish
FISH FARM Jeremiah, son of fish farmer William Kiarie inspects a mouthbrooder for eggs and fry, at Green Algae Highland fish's farm, on April 29, 2017, Sagana, Kirinyaga canton, central Keny. Green Algae Highland fish's farm is a casher of the Nutrient and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) initiated, Africa Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) an innovative fund to ameliorate agriculture and food security across the continent, breeds exotic and indigenous species of Tilapia and Catfish alongside ornamental species that include Goldfish and Cod. TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

The species of fish defined as mouthbrooders protect their eggs by keeping them in their mouths. Mouthbrooders include sea catfish, cardinalfish, pikeheads or jawfishes amid others.

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

xiii. 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 Baronial 12, 2021. JORGE GUERRERO/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

Orangutans accept to wait for vii to 8 years between births, the longest birth interval of whatever mammal.

Afterward the nativity of a infant orangutan and for most four months, the baby never loses physical contact with the mum. For the first two years of their lives, they completely depend on their mothers who may nurse them until they are 6 years sometime and take learned all the survivals skills required to manage on their ain.

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

14. Orcas

Orcas
New Zealand Rescuers Work To Reunite Stranded Babe Orca With Pod WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 14: Toa the orca swims around a makeshift enclosure at Plimmerton Canoeing Social club on July 14, 2021 in Wellington, New Zealand. The stranded male orca dogie was institute defenseless in the rocks near Plimmerton, north of Wellington, on Lord's day 11 July. People from Department of Conservation (DOC) and volunteers from the Orca Research Trust accept been taking shifts to care for the calf since information technology separated from its pod, as the search for the killer whale's pod continues. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images/Getty Images

Born into highly bonded family groups called pods, female orcas stay with their mothers for the rest of their lives. The males practice leave to mate but they eventually come up back.

Orcas can alive upwardly to xc years, then in one pod at that place will be many generations travelling together.

15. Polar Bears

Polar Bears
A Female person Polar Bear And Her Cub On The Water ice In Northward Spitsbergen Northward SPITSBERGEN, NORWAY - JUNE 06: A 2 year quondam polar acquit cub ventures close to a visiting boat over the moving water ice flow on June half dozen, 2012 in Vaigattfjellet, Northward Spitsbergen, Norway. David Yarrow/Getty Images/Getty Images

When a baby cub is born, the defended polar deport mother never leaves her cubs until they are about two-and-a-one-half years old.

During this period, she fully trains them to learn survival skills. While pregnant, polar acquit females spend nine months sheltering in a small den in grooming for nativity where they can go iv to eight months without eating.

17. Penguins

Emperor Penguins
Three Emperor Penguin Chicks Photo by Galen Rowell/Corbis via Getty Images/Getty Images

Subsequently an egg is laid, mother emperor penguin leaves it with the begetter who keeps it rubber and warm. The female parent then travels to the sea to attain fish and returns to the hatching site to feed the hatched chicks via regurgitation.

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

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

18. Tamarins

Tamarins
Colombia-ANIMALS-MONKEYS A Geoffroy Tamarin monkey (Saguinus geoffroyi) is pictured with her two, one-week-old cubs built-in at Santa Fe zoo, in Medellin, Colombia on November 8, 2017. JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

The South American primates enjoy living in family groups and babies volition stay with their parents until they are young adults.

xix. Wolves

Wolves
Kingdom of belgium-Beast-ZOO A female regurgitates food for wolf cubs from Canada in their enclosure at Pairi Daiza animal park in Brugelette, western Belgium, on August 15, 2019. PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP via Getty Image/Getty Images

Wolf cubs stay with their female parent for about ten months, the age the cubs are old plenty to hunt with the adults. The female wolf is a very nurturing mother and keeps her pups in a den for three to 4 weeks before allowing them out into the low-cal.

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

The boilerplate lifespan of a wolf is about 15 years.

20. Wolf Spiders

Wolf Spider
A garden wolf spider (Lycosa) carries her brood of over 100 babies on her dorsum for protection at Sydney Wild fauna Globe on July 18, 2008. The baby spiders will stay on her back for 30-xl days before molting and moving off or staying and risk beingness cannibalised. TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

Female wolf spiders tin can deport upwards to 100 babies in gild 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.