This also happens to strengthen the next generation of siren and siron who grow up together in such ways. Newborns are looked after by older pups which in a curious turn of events keep one another occupied and lower the risk of infant mortality that is usual with siren offspring. Siron males tend to get overprotective over their nest mates while sirens often lead and care over the clutch.
More often than not, they tend to spend most of the day sleeping under the warm sun after a heavy feeding. Stirred by any activity by the adults or for teaching lessons if they are older. Here we have an older ‘brother’, a dominant ‘sister’, and a week old hatchling ‘sister’ sleeping on a packed down shrub hidden from prying eyes with the parents just feet away.