We invite you to State Darwin Museum at 09.05.2015 at the exhibition "Daddy can!"
For visitors the exhibition will be open from 09.05.2015 – 19.07.2015.
Pregnant dads among the people can be met only in a fiction stories. But in the world of wildlife exemplary fathers – is not the phenomenon: they themselves incubate, accept childbirth, feed the kids, sitting on a diet, protect children's sleep and give birth! For the International Day of the father in the Darwin Museum will host an exhibition of zoo dads, adequately cope with numerous family troubles and prove every day, "Daddy can! ». Inspired by their example the male half of humanity certainly proud of his parental status, and someone – announce loudly: "I was a mother myself! »
Incubate eggs – is not the duty of men. However, some birds- fathers exhibited at the Darwin Museum, coping with it better than any mother. So, rheas, cassowaries and emus -fathers incubate the eggs from different females and brings up chicks the first months of their lives. He can only afford to absent for a short time, eats little and loses weight rapidly. You will see other examples of striking father's care among kiwi, snipe, water beetles, Yakan, penguins. Moreover, some childless penguins even steal others nestlings – they also want to be dads!
And not only hatching eggs! Some fathers themselves get pregnant and give birth to children. You have to go to this "maternity hospital" for daddies of sea horses, fishes – needles, Darwin's Frog and learn about the syndrome of "a pregnant dad" which are often exposed to future fathers and among people and among animals.
Came into being posterity is difficult to feed, and this problem is familiar not only to human families. In many species of animals, until mother sitting with the children, Daddy, "in the sweat" provides food. At the exhibition "Daddy can!" You will meet with a special children's menu, which make up for their hungry offsprings nursing fathers. Some feed the younger generation by insects and worms, fish and fresh meat, juicy fruits and berries. Other culinary delights are pampered: a real "bird's milk", meat or fish sauce, flavored broth and mushroom sauce.
Daddies – animals also perfectly cope with the traditionally male duties: build to their offspring seekers, provide them security, and act as porters, janitors, irrigators, and even Obstetricians. Along with females, and sometimes alone, they bring up their children and teach them all the tricks of life. Most of dads gained their professional skills by birth, but some have acquired and perfected them during life. These skilled masters of their craft will appear in front of you at the exhibition. You'll learn why for males of weed hens breeding of chicks – is an endless exhausting work, will see real castles in the air built for princes and princesses of the kingdom of fish, will encounter with the ferocity of the founding fathers- guards and escorts who selflessly protect their offspring, find out of what and how study wolves, foxes and cubs of monkeys from their fathers, and more.
The exhibition tells about the "non-traditional" dads – dwarfs and parasites. And you will realize: all sorts of dads are needed, all of dads are important! For kids will be games on the theme of fathers and sons, funny caricatures of dads and mini – cinema, where in non-stop mode will be broadcast educational film "The best animals – are daddies."
