Animal parents die for their young all the time, havent you heard of house cats standing up to wolves, giving their kittens enough time to flee or hide? or a mother bear staring down a male bear to protect her cubs? this whole presumption suffers from lack or logic.
Evolutionary this makes perfect sense. A species who does not care about its young will not defend them when they are defenseless and the young will die in large numbers. requiring that the parent produce huge ammounts of children(think fish or frogs)species who produce few children MUST protect their biologicall investment from predators or the species will slowly dwindle even from huge numbers to nothing. |