Some animals really enjoy the home comforts that come with staying with mum and dad for a long fourth dimension.

Below, nosotros've picked out xix animals that have a very close and long-lasting bond with their loving mothers.

1. African Elephants

African Elephant
Elephant dogie, Serengeti, Tanzania TANZANIA - JULY 24: Elephant calf feeding with its mother in Serengeti, Tanzania. Tim Graham/Getty Images/Getty Images

Female person elephants take the longest gestation period of any mammal (22 months), and after a very long pregnancy mums have no time to residual. Baby elephants are non only born virtually blind but they rely on their trunks and mothers for everything, their mums will usually nurse them for 4 to vi years.

In a phenomenon known equally "allomothering," other females in the community help to care for the calf. Females will stay with their natal herd for the rest of their lives, but males leave the grouping between the ages of 9 and18.

African elephants live, on average, between 60 and 70 years.

2. African Lions

African Lion and her cub
Kenya-NATURE-WILDLIFE-POACHING A lion cub walks with a female lion in the Mara Triangle, the north western part of Masai Mara national reserve managed by Non turn a profit organization Mara Conservancy, in southern Kenya, on Jan 25, 2018. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images

Lionesses tin give birth to cubs throughout the year and they will fiercely look after them until they can fend for themselves when they are about 16 months onetime.

The cubs volition stay with their mums until they are 2 or iii years old, but female person lions stay with their sisters and daughters for the residue of their lives.

The average lifespan of a female African lion is between 10 and 15 years.

3. Alligators

Baby Alligator
Zurich Classic Of New Orleans - Circular One AVONDALE, LA - APRIL 28: A baby alligator is seen most the ninth hole during the showtime round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans at TPC Louisiana on April 28, 2016 in Avondale, Louisiana. Chris Graythen/Getty Images/Getty Images

Female alligators are very protective of their young and when it is time for their babies to hatch, mothers will acquit each egg in her jaws from the nest to the water to protect them from predators. They will stay looking after them after most a year.

Alligators live, on average, between 30 and fifty years.

iv. Chimpanzees

Chimpanzees
Deutschland-ANIMALS-ZOO Chimpanzees delouse each other at the Zoom Erlebniswelt (World of experience) zoo in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany on June 4, 2020. INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images

The maternal bail is so stiff that Chimpanzees love and care for their female parent and vice versa fifty-fifty afterwards they abound up into adults.

5. Dolphins

Dolphins
Dolphin Dogie Born At SeaWorld San Diego SAN DIEGO, CA - October 20: In this handout photo provided by SeaWorld San Diego, Sadie, a 13-twelvemonth-onetime bottlenose dolphin at SeaWorld San Diego, swims with her newborn calf at the marine park'south Dolphin Stadium October 20, 2014 in San Diego, California. The calf, built-in on Saturday, Oct. eighteen at 3:32 p.m., is strong and appears to be in adept health. She is nursing regularly and continues to bond with its mother. This is the 80th bottlenose dolphin born at SeaWorld San Diego. Mike Aguilera/SeaWorld San Diego via Getty Images/Getty Images

Dolphins are a species that have a caring, almost maternal behaviour towards their own and others. Non surprisingly, virtually dolphins feed their babies their rich breast milk for ii to three years.

The average life expectancy of dolphins varies by species, but is more often than not betwixt 40 and sixty years.

vii. Grey kangaroo

Grey Kangaroos
Kangaroo Kangaroos are the largest marsupial surviving on world today. They are well known for their style of motility; hopping on their hind legs whilst using their large, muscular tail for residuum. These Kangaroos are having a belatedly afternoon snack before dusk. Gold Coast, Queensland, Commonwealth of australia. Wednesday 21st May 2014. Steve Christo/Corbis via Getty Images/Getty Images

Grey Kangaroos take brief pregnancies; after 21 to 38 days, they give nascence to a joey that volition stay in their mother's pouch until they are nine months old. But even after getting out of the pouch, it takes one twelvemonth to go cocky dependent and so information technology is upwardly to their mums to expect after them full time.

Kangaroos tin can live for about 18 years in the wild.

8. Giraffes

Giraffes
France-ANIMAL-ZOO-GIRAFFE 3-calendar month baby giraffe of Niger (Giraffa Camelopardalis) named "Kano" (down) eats bamboo by his mother "Dioni" (front), 17, and his father "Uzul, nine, at the zoological park "Zoo de la Fleche" in La Fleche, north-western French republic on May4, 2021. JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

A giraffe is an fauna that can exist pregnant while they are nursing the previous ones and mother giraffes spend most of their life either nursing or meaning.

Giraffes volition enjoy the company of their mothers up to 2 years, but female person giraffes will occasionally travel with their mum until the parent dies.

Giraffes tin can live for about 30 years in the wild.

nine. Gazelles

Gazelle
A ii-week-old Mhorr gazelle (Gazella dama mhorr) is fed by its animal-tender, at the Budapest Zoo Park and Botanical Gardens in Budapest on May 5, 2009. The gazelle babe, built-in on April 21, 2009, is being canteen fed afterward its mother was unable to do so. ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

To proceed her calves safe from predators, a female gazelle volition hide her babies in tall grasses until they are 2 months one-time, from then onwards the calf will spend more fourth dimension with the mum and less time in hiding. Around this time and while still nursing, they also join a herd.

When males accomplish adolescence, they join a bachelor group and the mother will stop post-obit him.

The boilerplate lifespan of a gazelle is about eight years in nature, and up to 15 years in captivity.

10. Gorillas

Gorillas
SYDNEY, Commonwealth of australia - November 18: Female parent Frala and her Western Lowland Gorilla baby Fakiri are seen at feeding time at Taronga Zoo on November xviii, 2020 in Sydney, Commonwealth of australia. Getty Images/Jenny Evans/Getty Images

Only like human females, gorillas are pregnant for about 8 to ix months and once they give nascence, their babies will stay in their total fourth dimension care until the age of iii to four years erstwhile. The same amount of time a female person gorilla waits between pregnancies.

The average lifespan of a gorilla is betwixt 35 and 40 years.

xi. Koalas

Koalas
SYDNEY, Australia - MARCH 02: Koala joey Humphrey is comforted past mother Willow at Taronga Zoo on March 02, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Eight-month-old Humphrey is the kickoff koala joey built-in at Taronga Zoo in over a year, and merely recently emerged from his female parent Willow'southward pouch. Koala joeys stay in their mother's pouch for upwards to half dozen months and it is only from effectually that age that they begin to sally and attach themselves to their mother's dorsum. Photo past Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images/Getty Images

Koala joeys stay about vi months inside their mother'south pouch feeding on milk which helps them in forming their ears, eyes (they are born blind) and fur. By the time the baby koala is 12 months old, they get out their mothers to find their own territory.

The average lifespan of a gorilla is betwixt xiii and 18 years.

12. Mouthbrooding Fish

Mouthbrooding Fish
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The species of fish defined as mouthbrooders protect their eggs by keeping them in their mouths. Mouthbrooders include sea catfish, cardinalfish, pikeheads or jawfishes amidst others.

Every bit soon as the eggs are fertilized, mothers don't eat in social club to avert swallowing them. After they have hatched, some mouthbrooders will continue to apply their mothers' mouth for protection.

13. Orangutans

Orangutans
SPAIN-ANIMALS-ORANGUTAN-Babe A Bornean orangutan called Suli holds its newborn baby at their enclosure at the Bioparc zoological park in Fuengirola on August 12, 2021. JORGE GUERRERO/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

Orangutans have to expect for vii to eight years between births, the longest nativity interval of whatsoever mammal.

Later the nascence of a baby orangutan and for near four months, the babe never loses physical contact with the mum. For the first 2 years of their lives, they completely depend on their mothers who may nurse them until they are half-dozen years old and take learned all the survivals skills required to manage on their own.

Similar to gorillas, the average lifespan of an orangutan is betwixt 35 and forty years.

14. Orcas

Orcas
New Zealand Rescuers Work To Reunite Stranded Baby Orca With Pod WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 14: Toa the orca swims around a makeshift enclosure at Plimmerton Canoeing Club on July 14, 2021 in Wellington, New Zealand. The stranded male orca dogie was found caught in the rocks most Plimmerton, n of Wellington, on Lord's day 11 July. People from Department of Conservation (DOC) and volunteers from the Orca Inquiry Trust have been taking shifts to intendance for the dogie since it separated from its pod, as the search for the killer whale's pod continues. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images/Getty Images

Born into highly bonded family groups called pods, female orcas stay with their mothers for the rest of their lives. The males do exit to mate but they somewhen come up back.

Orcas tin can live upwards to ninety years, and then in 1 pod there will exist many generations travelling together.

15. Polar Bears

Polar Bears
A Female person Polar Behave And Her Cub On The Water ice In North Spitsbergen North SPITSBERGEN, Norway - JUNE 06: A 2 year old polar bear cub ventures close to a visiting boat over the moving ice menses on June half-dozen, 2012 in Vaigattfjellet, North Spitsbergen, Norway. David Yarrow/Getty Images/Getty Images

When a baby cub is born, the defended polar bear female parent never leaves her cubs until they are about ii-and-a-one-half years old.

During this period, she fully trains them to learn survival skills. While pregnant, polar bear females spend nine months sheltering in a small den in grooming for birth where they can become iv to eight months without eating.

17. Penguins

Emperor Penguins
Three Emperor Penguin Chicks Photo by Galen Rowell/Corbis via Getty Images/Getty Images

Later on an egg is laid, mother emperor penguin leaves it with the father who keeps information technology prophylactic and warm. The mother then travels to the ocean to accomplish fish and returns to the hatching site to feed the hatched chicks via regurgitation.

The penguin chicks need their parents for survival and they volition stay with them for about six months.

The boilerplate lifespan of an emperor penguin is about 20 years.

18. Tamarins

Tamarins
Colombia-ANIMALS-MONKEYS A Geoffroy Tamarin monkey (Saguinus geoffroyi) is pictured with her two, one-week-old cubs born at Santa Atomic number 26 zoo, in Medellin, Colombia on November 8, 2017. JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

The South American primates enjoy living in family groups and babies will stay with their parents until they are young adults.

nineteen. Wolves

Wolves
Belgium-Brute-ZOO A female regurgitates food for wolf cubs from Canada in their enclosure at Pairi Daiza animal park in Brugelette, western Belgium, on August 15, 2019. PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP via Getty Image/Getty Images

Wolf cubs stay with their mother for virtually 10 months, the historic period the cubs are old enough to hunt with the adults. The female wolf is a very nurturing mother and keeps her pups in a den for three to four weeks before allowing them out into the light.

Wolves packs usually include the male and female person parent, and their pups from the last few years.

The average lifespan of a wolf is about 15 years.

twenty. Wolf Spiders

Wolf Spider
A garden wolf spider (Lycosa) carries her brood of over 100 babies on her back for protection at Sydney Wildlife Globe on July 18, 2008. The babe spiders volition stay on her back for 30-40 days before molting and moving off or staying and chance beingness cannibalised. TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images

Female wolf spiders tin carry upward to 100 babies in gild to protect them from predators, they really are protective mums and when the spiderlings hatch they stay attached to them for several days earlier handful.