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As many as 250 babies can be released during the delivery.
Humans are used to a 40-week gestation period (give or take) but when it comes to elephants, moms-to-be need to be a lot more patient. African elephants are the largest land animal on Earth, and ...
For Jade, an elephant at the St. Louis Zoo, pregnancy means staying in shape and participating in a variety of prenatal exercises meant to make her gestation and childbirth easier and safer for ...
I also used the imagery of "He gives birth to swimming horses", from the fact that male sea horses give birth to the children, so they're the only species that have a maternal feel for the young. It was, I suppose, an abstract way of linking it all together without being sensationalist.
The hedgehog seahorse (Hippocampus spinosissimus) is a species of fish of the family Syngnathidae. It inhabits coastal waters from India and Sri Lanka to Taiwan and northern Australia . [ 1 ] It is threatened by overfishing , as both targeted catch and bycatch .
This species is ovoviviparous, with males carrying eggs in a brood pouch before giving birth to live young. [1] Individuals reach sexual maturity at 11 centimetres (4.3 in). [ 3 ] The specific name and the common name honours the Indian physician, linguist and ichthyologist Dr. Surgeon-Major Atmaram Sadashiv "Muscati" Jayakar (1844–1911).
The baby elephant flops its trunk up in the air, video shows. ... Milo’s birth is the first time an elephant has given birth so close to the main buildings of the Ithumba preserve.
Denise's pygmy seahorse uses adaptive camouflage, changing its color to match that of the surrounding gorgonians. [4] It feeds on small crustaceans and other zooplankton. [6] An individual will stay on a single coral for the duration of its entire life. The species is ovoviviparous, and it is the male who broods the eggs in its ventral brood pouch.