Darby Saxbe
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So they're like keeping track of all their babies.
And bird dads are great.
Like, birds are also biparental.
So bird dads are doing a lot of resource providing and a lot of feeding.
And male birds will teach their babies how to sing.
Like, male songbirds will be the primary instructors of singing.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah, my daughter went through a huge only daddy phase for like a year.
Yeah, it drove me crazy.
We had this picture book that was like animal moms and we would read through it.
I'd read it to her and she'd be like, those are all dads.
Those are dad's moms.
Like she didn't want me to read it as though they were moms.
I was like, come on.
But, yeah, no, it's totally a thing.
And I was just talking to a friend about this.
Like, why is it that men are often harder on their boys?
And I think there's this sense that, like, we have to toughen boys up for the hard world.