Dumb mother quokka.

Quokkas look like an unused Disney character.

me and the wife saw a documentary on capybaras, and one of the mother's kids got eaten by a crocodile. The capybara gave 0 fucks.

Edit : we even joke about "Caiman ate ma baybee!"

And when it comes to humans: "Almost all neonaticides are committed by mothers." - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2174580/

Relevant Natural History Short

If the mother gets eaten, the offspring in her pouch will be too. Sacrificing one to save the others and maintain the opportunity to reproduce again in the future works out from an evolutionary standpoint.

Remember, you only get to live once. You can also have more children.

It's not that they throw them, they "accidentally" fall from the pouch

Relatable.

More where that came from lol!

-Momma Quokka

Cute

How nice of science to demand the motivation of the mother for ditching her kid.

Maybe their flight response causes them to lose control of their pouch muscles (because that’s not a priority to survive), therefore accidentally dropping their babies.

The last few memes have been bullshit about the kind of day I've been having to spend around my mother in law and thank you y'all for helping

English mother quokka, do you speak it!?

Yeet the baby!

correction on that last sentence. mother's want to save themselves because they don't want to die. they are not making any calculations about their own fertility.

this strategy doesn't prove to be a major evolutionary disadvantage because the mothers are proven to be fertile so there is no evolutionary pressure to remove this trait but that's an analysis a human scientist is making. not the quokka

What natural predators do quokkas even have??

MothaQuokka you did what?!

Is this post text written by AI? It seems very, "no, but yes, but maybe". It's like it's written by an LLM trained on clickbait.