These Mothers Are The Best In The Animal Kingdom

7. Red-Knobbed Hornbills

Red-Knobbed Hornbills live in an extremely dangerous habitat where monitor lizards love to eat their eggs. To keep these animals from eating their eggs, mother red-knobbed hornbills will cut a hole in trees and make a nest there. But what about the door? The hornbill has a remedy for that too: they will literally use their own poop to build a wall and then sit on her eggs in the dark for two months. She doesn't mind the scent or the hunger; she does it all for her babies.

8. Elephant Seals

Female elephant seals already weigh 1,700 pounds, and because they are pregnant for 11 months, they will gain so much weight that it will be hard for them to walk. But once she gives birth, she'll lose another 600 pounds in just a month by feeding her cubs. That would definitely make Hollywood moms envy of how easy it is for them to lose weight after giving birth.

9. Octopus

We've all heard our moms grumble about having to take care of us and our siblings, yet her job is nothing compared to that of the octopus. An octopus mother lays more than 50,000 eggs and watches over them for 40 days until they hatch. Also, the mother has to blow air over all the eggs to keep them healthy. The mother doesn't leave for anything, not even to hunt. It's a lot of labor. She can easily eat one of her eight arms if she feels hungry.

10. Sea Louse

Being a mother of sea lice is arguably the worst thing that could happen to anyone. We should all be thankful that our mothers don't had to go through this. A male sea louse lures a female into a tunnel, where he has trapped about 25 other pregnant females. As if that wasn't bad enough, the infants will practically eat their mother from the inside out when they are ready to be born. Talk about how horrible giving birth is.