What are the consequences of not severing it? I imagine you’d have the weirdest bellybutton on earth if nothing else.

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  • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    …this is why mom animals in nature just eat the placenta and get it over with or something. I saw it on discovery channel

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      11 months ago

      Well they don’t eat it to get it off of the baby. While I’m not a vet or a zoologist, my understanding is they eat it for the nutrients as well as to help remove the scent, and newborn animals are easy prey and targeted by predators.