Animals that live in groups, including species like the prolific African driver ant, can have more babies than solitary animals because of the greater protection offered by the group.

The implications here are that these animals recognise that sex leads to babies, and they have some sense of whether or not they were the progenitor of the infants they encounter.

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In most cases, MassWildlife says you should leave any baby animals you see in the wild alone. In most cases, even if a young animal seems helpless and abandoned, they are not.