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TIL for the first time, researchers observed mother leopard seals caring for their deceased offspring. This rare behavior is known as 'postmortem attentive behavior', or PAB. One mother seal attended to her pup's corpse for 20 days, which is one of the longest observed bouts of PAB ever recorded.
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A Leopard Seal Mother’s Love Transcends Death

The maternal instinct known as “postmortem attentive behavior” was documented in these fierce marine mammals for the first time

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