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The larval stage of insect development is considered by some to be a form of altricial development, but it more accurately depicts, especially amongst eusocial animals, an independent phase of development, as the larvae of bees, ants, and many arachnids are completely physically different from their developed forms, and the pre-pupal stages of ...
Parthenogenesis occurs naturally in some plants, algae, invertebrate animal species (including nematodes, some tardigrades, water fleas, some scorpions, aphids, some mites, some bees, some Phasmatodea, and parasitic wasps), and a few vertebrates, such as some fish, amphibians, and reptiles. This type of reproduction has been induced ...
The act of eating one's own offspring, or filial cannibalism, may be an adaptive behaviour for a parent to use as an extra source of food. Parents may eat part of a brood to enhance the parental care of the current brood. Alternatively, parents may eat the whole brood to cut their losses and improve their future reproductive success. [79]
A baby gorilla wearing a tiny T-shirt was discovered inside a small wooden crate at the Istanbul Airport before being subsequently rescued. Customs enforcement teams flagged down a cargo shipment ...
Image credits: an1malpulse #5. Animal campaigners are calling for a ban on the public sale of fireworks after a baby red panda was thought to have died from stress related to the noise.
That might sound like a lot, but adult Nile hippos weigh between 3,000 up to almost 10,000 pounds! Even just weighing a hundred pounds or so right now makes it difficult for zookeepers to get him ...
While hatching, the baby echidna opens the leather shell with a reptile-like egg tooth. [22] Hatching takes place after 10 days of gestation ; the young echidna, called a puggle, [ 23 ] [ 24 ] born larval and fetus-like, then sucks milk from the pores of the two milk patches (monotremes have no teats ) and remains in the pouch for 45 to 55 days ...
Baby ducklings and elephants and panda bears grace the walls of children’s nurseries. Baby lion cubs get their own Disney movies. But let us consider for a moment the humble anteater.