You can do it, baby!

August 28, 2019 3:03 PM

Looking for your favorite videos of mama (or papa) birds or animals encouraging their baby animals to fly or walk (particularly looking for flying lessons, but glad for anything if it's particularly adorable). Extra points if the action feels like the way a human would do it.
posted by Mchelly to Pets & Animals (4 answers total)

If you google "otter teaching baby to swim" you'll get a bunch of adorable (and hilarious) videos of mama river otters dragging their pups into the water.
posted by heatherlogan at 5:26 PM on August 28, 2019 [3 favorites]

peeedro links a few great duckling ones in this recent thread
posted by Iris Gambol at 7:43 PM on August 28, 2019 [1 favorite]

Tilly the river otter gave Molalla, her baby, intense swimming lessons.

It isn't flying or walking, but I do love videos and photos of baby chimps and baby capuchins learning how to use tools.
posted by ChuraChura at 6:19 AM on August 29, 2019 [1 favorite]

I posted a collection of baby animals learning how to animal a couple of years ago. A lot of these are more the baby animals learning and trying things out than being helped by their momma necessarily, but perhaps some will work for you.
posted by Homeboy Trouble at 4:25 PM on August 29, 2019 [2 favorites]