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What is "parental care"? Give some idea about parental care with different examples?

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Parental care is the process of caring childs from infancy to childhood. Parental care mostly persists in amphibians, reptiles birds and fishes. Parental care are two types internal parental care and external parental care. In most of the egg laying organisms the females give birth to eggs and male one looks after the eggs. The parental care typically involves guarding the eggs from predators, fanning the eggs with increase oxygen supply and clearing the eggs to eliminate fungus. Reptiles like crocodile, turtles build nest for caring their child.

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