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how do mammals cut their umbilical cord after they have given birth?

Public Comments

1. Scissors for humans, teeth for "animals"
2. They chew it off, and eat the sack and what nots....HEY just like TOM CRUISE!
3. The mother bites it off.
4. Either it dries up and falls off naturally, or the mother chews it off at some point.
5. most eat the placenta, so it gets eaten too. I've seen it many times. Dogs, cats, horses, cows, deer, etc.
6. They Gnaw Threw It (and then eat it, it's full of nutrients the mother needs to put back into her body)
7. it depends on the animal. Most animals do cut it off with their teeth. Certain animals, such as cattle or sheep will eat the umbilical cord as well as all the other mess created during birth, in order to keep their offspring safe from predators who can smell the afterbirth and target the young animal for food, if you do not take the afterbirth away first.
8. The mother will chew it until seperation occurs.
9. It usually comes out with the baby.
10. The bite through it. It's instinctive.
11. no they bite it off they do not have knives