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Viviparous
Viviparous meaning
Being born alive, as are most mammals, some reptiles, and a few fish (as opposed to being laid as an egg and subsequently hatching, as do most birds and many other species). | Arising from an embryo that develops from the outset (rather than from a true seed that then germinates).
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The reserve protects a forested mountain range rich in native plants and animals, including chimpanzees and the viviparous toad.
Finally he deals with embryogenesis in viviparous animals especially hinds and does.
Non-mammals A viviparous animal is an animal employing vivipary : the embryo develops inside the body of the mother, as opposed to outside in an egg ( ovipary ).
Ovoviviparous and viviparous animals also use internal fertilisation.
Seeds of some mangroves are viviparous; they begin to germinate while still attached to the parent.
The families of Cyprinodontiformes can be divided into three groups: viviparous and ovoviviparous (all species give live birth ), and oviparous (all species egg-laying).
The hammerhead sharks exhibit a viviparous mode of reproduction with females giving birth to live young.
The live-bearing groups differ in whether the young are carried to term within (ovoviviparous) or without (viviparous) an enclosing eggshell.
The placenta is attached directly to the mother in these lizards which is called viviparous matrotrophy.
The young lick the milk from a mammary patch on the mother's belly. citation Viviparous mammals are in the subclass Theria; those living today are in the marsupial and placental infraclasses.
This probably represents the velvet worm's original mode of reproduction, i.e., both oviparous and viviparous species developed from ovoviviparous species.
Unlike the embryos of viviparous species, ovoviviparous embryos are nourished by the egg yolk rather than by the mother's body.
Viviparous offspring live independently and require an external food supply from birth.