Father knows best? Maybe so when it comes to survival of the species. But these animal dads have some seriously unconventional ideas about fatherhood often at odds with those we’ll celebrate this Father’s Day. When you look closer, though, the good reasons behind these animals’ strange styles prove there are plenty of different ways to successfully father the next generation.

Like human dads boasting of their kids' winning goals or college acceptances, barbary macaques, primates that are native to North Africa, show off babies as a way to impress each other and build social networks. These monkeys live in troops of about 30 members, and life revolves around the babies born each spring.

During baby season, males carry the infants, even