### id260185332 some male millipedes care for their eggs > In at least one species, father millipedes exhibit a behavior called “parental care” which is rare in nature: He will curl his body around his eggs to protect them until they hatch. “I’ve seen neat examples of the father walking around with a clutch of eggs in his middle legs and walking with the front and the back legs kind of like a little like hunched over, like an inchworm,” Marek said. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fq9jsdaj1dd7vk7m6g4k7r8m) - [[Scientists Have Identified the First 'True' Millipede by Shayla Love#id260185332 some male millipedes care for their eggs|View in Vault]] - [n] Nice example of good dads in nature, like seahorses.