We've all heard the phrase, "raised by wolves" though wolves are actually good parents and the whole pack helps with raising the young. Then you have lions, the females are excellent mothers but the males will kill the cubs that don't belong to them plus they are first in line when mother lion brings home a meal, to hell with the cubs. Male grizzly bears are opportunistic hunters meaning anything that comes into their territory is fair game, including their own cubs, plus it also forces the females into estrus, win-win for papa bear. When it comes to aquatic dads, other than the male seahorse who carries and gives birth to their young, most male fish guard the eggs for awhile but once they start hatching they eat ones who are slow to hatch.
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