Plenty of us human moms feel under-appreciated from time to time. Perhaps, hypothetically speaking, by teens who ask whether the dishwasher's dirty or clean without checking, who fail to turn their laundry the right way out or who think "what's for supper" is acceptable slang for "hello." But however put-upon we may feel, our kids' failure to overtly and regularly praise us for our maternal virtues is nothing beside the societal lack of appreciation for some of the animal kingdom's great mothers. These are moms maligned purely because they are, well, a little creepy. A little crawly, even.
Luckily, our judgment doesn't matter in the least. For their respective babies, naked mole rats, vultures, centipedes and aye-ayes are as beautiful as any mom is, really, in the eyes of her child.
