What animal gives birth through the mouth?

Also knows as Platypus frogs, the female amphibian, after external fertilization by the male, would swallow its eggs, brood its young in its stomach and gave birth through its mouth.
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Do any animals lay eggs from their mouth?

The catfish use the mouth of the cichlid to harbor her eggs. The cuckoo catfish will actually swim over and lay an egg in the mouth of a cichlid for her to carry. While this is happening, the male cichlid dives in to fertilize what he thinks are the female cichlid's eggs but are actually the cuckoo catfish's eggs.
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What animal lays eggs out of its mouth?

Cichlids hold fertilized eggs in their mouth.

When they reproduce, the male puts the fertilized eggs in his mouth, which is where they stay until hatching. This process is called mouthbrooding. The male fish is unable to eat at this time.
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Does fish give birth through mouth?

mouthbreeder, any fish that breeds its young in the mouth. Examples include certain catfishes, cichlids, and cardinal fishes. The male of the sea catfish Galeichthys felis places up to 50 fertilized eggs in its mouth and retains them until they are hatched and the young are two or more weeks old.
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Does bat give birth through mouth?

A common misconception, bats do not give birth through their mouth. Bats reproduce sexually similar to humans and give birth while hanging upside down. Most bats give birth to one baby bat pup at a time but sometimes have twins.
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Is there any bird that gives live birth?

No bird gives birth to live young. Birds quickly form and lay an egg covered in a protective shell that is then incubated outside the body. Birds developed much great mobility than a mammal, but at the cost of being unable to carry its growing offspring about in its body.
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How does a whale give birth?

How do whales give birth? Because whales are mammals, their calves grow inside their mothers and are born through live births.
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Do dogs give birth from their mouth?

During the chewing and licking, she tears open the birth sac and exposes the mouth and nose so that the puppy can breathe. You will realize all is well if the puppy starts to whimper or cry within a minute or so after birth.
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How do Hyenas give birth?

A spotted hyena, in particular, has one of the strangest births you may see on a safari in Africa. This carnivorous wild animal gives birth through a narrow birth canal. The birthing process is most dangerous for first-time mothers and can result in the cubs' death from suffocation.
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What animal is born pregnant?

The swamp wallaby is the only mammal that is permanently pregnant throughout its life according to new research about the reproductive habits of marsupials. Unlike humans, kangaroos and wallabies have two uteri. The new embryo formed at the end of pregnancy develops in the second, 'unused' uterus.
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Do sharks give birth out their mouth?

Some shark embryos develop a placenta for nutritional exchange (viviparous), at least during a period of the gestation cycle. But, alas, while some of the oviparous sharks will take their eggs in the mouth and plant them in crevices, they don't actually give birth through their mouths.
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Do snakes lay eggs from their mouth?

Now you know that snakes don't give birth through their mouths. Snakes can develop and deliver their young one of three ways: laying eggs, live birth, or a combination of the two.
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How do snakes give birth?

Most snakes develop eggs inside of them and eventually lay those eggs. The eggs will then incubate from atmospheric heat or the mother's body heat from. She may leave the pile alone or may curl herself around it to keep the clutch warm. The babies hatch sometime later.
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How do giraffes give birth?

Giraffes give birth standing up

Newborn giraffes enter the world in a sort of 'superman' position: front legs and head first, followed by their body, and then back legs. Because of the extreme size of their offspring, giraffe mums give birth standing up so as to not damage their babies' lengthy necks.
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What is the only male animal that gives birth?

Seahorses and their close relatives, sea dragons, are the only species in which the male gets pregnant and gives birth. Male seahorses and sea dragons get pregnant and bear young—a unique adaptation in the animal kingdom.
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How does an elephant give birth?

The elephant may attempt to rub off the protruding bladder. The calf passes through the birth canal, and the mother separates the amniotic bladder from the newborn. The mother sniffs and blows on the calf. Once she accepts her calf, the mother will pull it towards her.
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How does a pig give birth?

Gently rubbing the udder will make the sow relax and lie on her side in the position to give birth. Farrowing is a natural process and the sow will usually need no help. Once the first piglet is born the others, and the afterbirth, will quickly follow. Farrowing should be completed within 2 to 3 hours.
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How do cats have babies?

The female can be bred at any time during her active phase of her heat cycle because cats are induced ovulators. This means that the act of breeding stimulates the ovaries to release eggs. Therefore, eggs are only released from the ovaries when the sperm are deposited in the reproductive tract.
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How do crocodiles give birth?

The female searches for suitable spots to give birth and may dig a few trial holes or build a partial nest. When she's ready, she lays her eggs at night. The eggs pass out through the cloaca. The process takes 30 to 40 minutes, during which time the female goes into a trance-like state.
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How does a dolphin give birth?

Dolphins give birth to a single baby; the baby is usually born tail first (unlike most mammals) to minimise the risk of drowning. The birth can take a couple of hours. The newborn dolphin is fully dependent on his or her mother and suckles thick paste-like milk from her nipples until he or she is able to catch fish.
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What is the longest a woman has been pregnant?

But other doctors at Los Angeles' Methodist Hospital found it incredible that Mrs. Hunter had been pregnant 375 days (instead of the normal 280) before her baby was born there last week; 375 days would be the longest pregnancy on record, topping the runner-up by about 58 days. The evidence as presented by Dr.
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Can snakes give live birth?

All boas and their relatives except the enigmatic Calabar boa (Calabaria reinhardtii) give live birth. This includes boa constrictors, rainbow boas, tree boas, sand boas and anacondas. These snakes are primarily found in Central and South America, but a few are found in Africa and Asia.
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How do peacocks give birth?

peacock is a male peafowl and hence it does not lay eggs and doe snot give birth to baby peacocks. Actually peahen which is female peafowl give birth to baby peacocks by laying eggs.
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Did dinosaurs lay eggs or give birth?

As far as we know, all dinosaurs reproduced by laying eggs, as do most other sauropsids (reptiles). It is very difficult to determine what species of dinosaur laid the eggs that have been discovered, because only a few dinosaur embryos have been found inside the fossil eggs.
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