At eighteen months, the mother leaves the cubs, who then form a sibling (" sib ") group that will stay together for another six months.

Reared underground in burrows, the cubs will stay close to the den until they are about four months old.

Most cubs stay with their mothers for three years.

Males begin emerging from their dens in early April, while sows with new cubs may stay in dens until late June.

Mother finds it impossible to begin their sleep, since the young cubs wish to stay awake until Santa arrives.

The cubs often stay with the female for one year before striking out on their own.

During her stay in Namibia, she befriended wild animals, including a 28-year old elephant Abu, a leopard nicknamed J & B, crocodiles, lion cubs, giraffes, a Northern Greater Galago, a Banded Mongoose, an Ostrich, meerkats, a baby zebra, a cheetah, a Caracal, a snake, an African Grey Parrot, giant bullfrogs and chameleons.

An old she-wolf with a sky-blue mane named Asena found the baby and nursed him, then the she-wolf gave birth to half wolf, half human cubs therefore the Turkic people were born.

Cheetah with cubs

At first, she spends 60 % to 90 % of her time with the cubs.

Netsuke of tigress with two cubs, mid-19th century Japan, ivory with shell inlay

Bears and later bear cubs became closely associated with Roosevelt in political cartoons thereafter.

They regard it as wholly distinct, and affirm that it is larger and much more dangerous than the spotted jaguar ; that they recognise it by its cry ; that it belongs to the terra firma rather than to the water-side ; finally, that black pairs with black, and that the cubs are invariably black.

Note the white spot on its tail, used for communicating with cubs while hunting or in long grass.

In Kruger National Park, males and females with cubs are more active at night.

File: Tigeress with cubs in Kanha Tiger reserve. jpg | Tigeress with cubs in Kanha Tiger reserve

During foraging times, the young cubs are left with a pair of babysitters, similar to Meerkats.

Cormac was carried off in infancy by a she-wolf and reared with her cubs, but a hunter found him and brought him back to his mother.

Minstrel characters were often described in animalistic terms, with " wool " instead of hair, " bleating " like sheep, and having " darky cubs " instead of children.

A Bengal tigress with her cubs at the Bandhavgarh National Park, India

Included in his home range were the much smaller home ranges of two females, a tigress with cubs and a sub-adult tigress.

In 2000, the Bengal tiger re-wilding project Tiger Canyons was started by John Varty, who together with the zoologist Dave Salmoni trained captive-bred tiger cubs how to stalk, hunt, associate hunting with food and regain their predatory instincts.

Elsa's death made her cubs much more averse to human contact, even with the Adamsons themselves, complicating what would be their capture and ultimate release in the Serengeti.

But it was also with these two lions here in front of us ; and as I watched this beautiful pair, I realized how all the characteristics of our cubs were inherent in them.

The typical gestation period is about two months ; the cubs are born between March and September, with a peak of births in March and April.

Canada lynx cubs weigh from at birth, and initially have greyish buff fur with black markings.

Polar bears use their fur for warmth and while their skin is black, their transparent fur appears white and provides camouflage while hunting and serves as protection by hiding cubs in the snow.

The cubs start to open their eyes at about 18 days of age.

This behaviour is adaptive in evolutionary terms because killing the cubs eliminates competition for their own offspring and causes the nursing females to come into heat faster, thus allowing more of his genes to enter into the population.

While the thylacine was extant it preyed on the devil, which targeted young and unattended thylacine cubs in their dens.

However, bears do not have long tails, and Jewish astronomers considered Alioth, Mizar, and Alkaid instead to be either three cubs following their mother, and the Native Americans as three hunters.

Females live alone, except when they are raising cubs and they raise their cubs on their own.

Females always hunt alone, although cubs will accompany their mothers to learn to hunt once they reach the age of five to six weeks.

* Purring: This is made when the cheetah is content, usually during pleasant social meetings ( mostly between cubs and their mothers ).

Mother cheetahs will defend their young and are at times successful in driving predators away from their cubs.

Nursing female leopard cats defending their nests were shot for their pelts, and the cubs were shipped off to pet stores worldwide.

Bear mothers spend much of their cubs ' early life protecting them from males.

* Male lions will tolerate cubs, but only allow them to eat meat from dead prey after they have had their fill.

The four cubs are healthy and happy in their new home.

The cubs open their eyes after a month, and will hunt for themselves after four months.

Resident adults of either sex tend to confine their movements to a definite area of habitat within which they satisfy their needs, and in the case of tigresses, those of their growing cubs.