Question: how do animals live normally

Renata Medeiros answered on 24 Jun 2013:

This will depend a lot no the animal though we can generalise a lot a say that animals’ lives are all about staying alive as long as they can (escaping predators and finding food) and reproducing as much as they can (leave the greater number of babies before they die). Most animals sleep and a lot of animals have relaxed moments when they just play with each other or lay around. Apart from these general behaviours, all animals are different and live different lives.
The seabirds I study are born inside burrows in desert islands. When they are fully grown they find their way to the sea where they will spend the first few years without coming close to land (we don’t know much about what they do during this time). Eventually they start going back to the same island where they were born, once a year, to find a partner and breed. They usually breed with the same partner every year though they don’t see each other for the rest of the year, while they are at sea. Both male and female do shifts to incubate the egg and feed the young. I guess this gives you a rough idea of how they normally live but I’m trying to find out a lot more and might be able to tell you in a few years time!