Do animals live with their parents? – Animal Behaviour Zone

Question: Do animals live with their parents?
- Keywords:
  family,
  parent,
  social
Asked by rebeccas to Charlotte, Jo, Kevin, Louise, Valeria on 15 Jun 2012.
- Kevin Mahon answered on 15 Jun 2012:
  
  They do in many case! Parental care is a massive area of behavioural ecology and how parents look after their young shows great variation. Animals don’t live with their parents once they are grown however and the trend is for them to usually leave their home range and establish new territory to their parents.
  
  The kinds of animals that care for their young are really varied – we used to think it was something only mammals did but aome centipedes and crocodiles (!) have been shown to be very protective of their offspring and look after them for a long time!

Question: Do animals live with their parents?