How is "motherhood" depicted in the story collection, Wild Animals I Have Known?

Wild animal mothers are a favorite subject in Seton's stories. "Raggylug: The Story of a Cottontail Rabbit," describes the heroism of Molly Raggylug's mother, who lures the fox away from her concealed little ones. In The Springfield Fox," Vix, a mother fox, carefully trains her cubs for their future lives as predators. When they are killed by a hunter, her grief is as intense as that of any human mother. "Redruff: The Story of the Don Valley Partridge" depicts a mother partridge and her brood struggling to survive against predators both animal and human, in which, Redruffs mother outwits and outmaneuvers a fox to defend her chicks.