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Easier or Harder | Litterbox Comics (i0.wp.com)
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[–] 47 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I'm incredibly dumb in biology but the joke is that hienas, hedgehogs and that specific bird species always leave their children alone and stranded after a certain age?

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  • [–] 84 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I assume the joke is that they have very difficult birthing processes?

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  • [–] 94 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Left to right we have

    • traumatic birth through pseudopenis
    • SPIKEY BABY
    • giant egg
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  • [–] 46 points 9 months ago

    On the porcupine the babies quills, kinda like horse hooves, are soft at first and begin to harden afterwards but aren't super spiky for a few days. But yeah a split psuedo banana and an egg that is almost literally the same size as you aren't picnics

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    • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    man... sucks to be a tiny ostrich but lay big ostritch size eggs

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    [–] 9 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    it gets harder but you have adapted to the preceeding stage.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I dunno, the 'kid is intelligent enough to go to the fridge and get food themselves' and 'kid no longer craps their pants' is a hell of an upgrade. I haven't made it to a point where things are harder than it was before either of those things.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Thats my trick, i havent adapted to any stage yet.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    to be fair to you, I adapt a lot , some well, some not well, but adapting to the constant resistence and fighting is something I haven't adapted to yet. It's one thing to change a nappy, it's another to change a nappy attached to a screaming, squirming child

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks, I was reading this as pertaining to subsequent children, not stages, and was confused

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I guess it does get easier with subsequent children, your mileage may vary, but also, you do stop giving as much of a fuck if you have more kids, especially if you go from "individual attention" mode to "manage the herd" mode.

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