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.
Cichlids hold fertilized eggs in their mouth.
Cichlids are from the large fish family called Cichlidae, which includes tilapia and angelfish. When they reproduce, the male puts the fertilized eggs in his mouth, which is where they stay until hatching. This process is called mouthbrooding.
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.
The gastric-brooding frog is the only known frog to give birth through its mouth. According to researchers at the University of South Wales, the frog lays eggs but then swallows them.
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.
The female platypus lays her eggs in an underground burrow that she digs near the water's edge. Baby platypuses hatch after 10 days and nurse for up to four months before they swim off and forage on their own.
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.
Like frogs, most toads lay their fertilised eggs in water, where they hatch into tadpoles before developing into adult toads. These amphibians need a safe, undisturbed body of water to lay their eggs in.
In seahorses and pipefish, it is the male that gets pregnant and gives birth. Seahorse fathers incubate their developing embryos in a pouch located on their tail. The pouch is the equivalent of the uterus of female mammals. It contains a placenta, supporting the growth and development of baby seahorses.
Today's frogs and toads all either lay eggs in water or give live birth, but a few extinct species of platypus frogs incubated their eggs in their mouths! Amazingly, a few species of frogs used their mouths to incubate their eggs!
Females give birth while standing. The birth itself lasts only a few minutes. A single calf is usually born head and forelegs first. Twins have been documented, but are extremely rare.
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.
Bats are mammals, so a female bat gives birth to a live baby and do not lay eggs. Astonishingly, females give birth while hanging upside down! The mother pushes her pup out of her womb towards her feet and then catch it to prevent it from falling to the ground.
Only two kinds of egg-laying mammals are left on the planet today—the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, or spiny anteater. These odd “monotremes” once dominated Australia, until their pouch-bearing cousins, the marsupials, invaded the land down under 71 million to 54 million years ago and swept them away.
The baby snakes are connected to their mother through a yolk sac and placenta, just like human babies. The mother snake then gives birth to live babies through her cloaca. Garter snakes are the most common types of snakes that give birth to live babies. Anacondas and some other constrictor species are also viviparous.
Reproduction: Sea stars are broadcast spawners. Males release sperm into the water and females release eggs. The fertilized eggs hatch into a larval form that lives as plankton, sometimes for months, before settling on the sea floor in its adult form.
In most cases, the females release eggs into the water and they are immediately fertilized by sperm from the male. In the wild, fish can easily reproduce when they sexually mature.
Just when you thought you've seen/heard it all, a video clip of a male white seahorse having babies emerges on the Internet. Yes, a male giving birth—painful contractions and all. Turns out, when it comes to seahorses, males are actually the ones that become pregnant and carry the babies.
As a rule, reptiles lay eggs, while mammals deliver young through live birth. According to new research, however, this distinction is a bit more fluid than most assume—for reptiles, at least.
There are over 500 species of shark living in waters around the world and the majority give birth to live young. The remainder are oviparous, meaning they lay eggs.
Female frogs can produce thousands of eggs per year! They retain them in their bodies until it's time to mate. If she doesn't mate with a male and her eggs don't get fertilized, they die off inside her body.
Swamp wallabies have two uteruses, so they can conceive a new baby before birthing another, scientists have discovered.
Most animals that procreate through parthenogenesis are small invertebrates such as bees, wasps, ants, and aphids, which can alternate between sexual and asexual reproduction. Parthenogenesis has been observed in more than 80 vertebrate species, about half of which are fish or lizards.
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.