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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What animal does the dad give birth?

In all of the vast animal kingdom spanning the planet, seahorses (and their pipefish and sea dragon relatives) are the only species whose male members give birth to young.
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Do any male mammals give birth?

In the entire animal kingdom, male seahorses (and their close relatives) are the only male animals that undergo pregnancy and give birth to offspring.
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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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What animals have male pregnancy?

Who else does it? Pipefishes and seahorses are the only species to which the term male pregnancy has been applied. Although paternal care is fairly common in the animal world, few if any species have taken it to the outrageous extremes seen in Syngnathidae.
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Which animal dies after childbirth?

Octopuses are semelparous animals, which means they reproduce once and then they die. After a female octopus lays a clutch of eggs, she quits eating and wastes away; by the time the eggs hatch, she dies.
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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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Can a boy get pregnant?

People who are born male and living as men cannot get pregnant. A transgender man or nonbinary person may be able to, however. It is only possible for a person to be pregnant if they have a uterus. The uterus is the womb, which is where the fetus develops.
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Can a 12 year old get pregnant?

Technically, women can get pregnant and bear children from puberty when they start getting their menstrual period to menopause when they stop getting it. The average woman's reproductive years are between ages 12 and 51. Your fertility naturally declines as you get older, which could make it harder for you to conceive.
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Who has the most kids in the world?

The first wife of peasant Yakov Kirillov from the village of Vvedensky, Russia, gave birth to 57 children in a total of 21 births. She had four sets of quadruplets, seven sets of triplets and ten sets of twins.
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Can a girl get pregnant by another girl?

The short answer to this question is no, not through sexual intercourse. Two cisgender women (meaning assigned female at birth) in a relationship cannot become pregnant without some form of assisted reproductive technology (ART). The reasoning goes back to basic biology and how an embryo is formed.
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Do female hyenas have a PP?

All female spotted hyenas have functional penises. They use it pee, signal, anally mount males & females for dominance, and give birth. Intersex plumbing is found in ALL females of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) of Tanzania—in which the females have penises nearly indistinguishable from those of the males.
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How are snakes born?

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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What animal never dies?

To date, there's only one species that has been called 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. These small, transparent animals hang out in oceans around the world and can turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage of their life cycle.
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Which is the animal that never sleeps?

Bullfrogs… No rest for the Bullfrog. The bullfrog was chosen as an animal that doesn't sleep because when tested for responsiveness by being shocked, it had the same reaction whether awake or resting.
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Which animal dies after drinking water?

Kangaroo rats die after drinking water. Kangaroo rats, also known as desert rats, have metabolism in which their body produces the required amount of water. It fulfils its nutrition and water requirements from the seeds it eats and the body's metabolism mechanism.
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What animals can switch genders?

Clownfish, wrasses, moray eels, gobies and other fish species are known to change sex, including reproductive functions. A school of clownfish is always built into a hierarchy with a female fish at the top. When she dies, the most dominant male changes sex and takes her place.
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Why do hyenas go for the balls?

A balanced food chain is vital, the officer revealed adding that it helps animals in the ecosystem balance roles. she said. She noted that owing to the fact that hyenas cannot hunt, they target loose hanging parts of the animals like testicles and tails. she says.
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What female animal is stronger than the male?

Females hyenas are larger and stronger than males, and direct where the groups go. Typically, hungry lactating females take the lead, followed by youngsters and males. Female hyena leadership is important during clan wars, when groups battle it out, usually over territory.
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How do giraffes give birth?

Giraffes give birth standing up.

Female giraffes are pregnant for 14 to 15 months. When they go into labor, they stand up to push the calf out. When the baby giraffe emerges, it drops to the ground. This fall can be about 6 feet, and it helps the giraffe's umbilical cord break.
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Can a girl get pregnant by kissing and hugging?

There's absolutely no way to get pregnant from kissing, no matter how much tongue is involved.
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How can I get pregnant without a man?

3 Ways To Get Pregnant Without a Man
  1. Intrauterine insemination (IUI)
  2. In vitro fertilization (IVF)
  3. Egg and sperm donation.
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What is the oldest mother to give birth?

Erramatti Mangayamma at age 74 gave birth to twins in India last week after becoming pregnant through IVF, making her the oldest person ever to give birth, according to her doctors, and reigniting debate over so-called geriatric pregnancies.
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What is the heaviest baby ever born?

The Guinness World record for the heaviest baby to survive infancy belongs to a boy weighing 22 pounds, 8 ounces, who was born in Aversa, Italy, in 1955. In 2019, a New York woman named Joy Buckley gave birth to a daughter who weighed 15 pounds, 5 ounces.
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