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"Pregnant" Fish Fathers Suck the Life from Their Young


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Matt Kaplan

Source: National Geographic News

December 21, 2009

 

With the fathers taking on the responsibility of "gestating" their young, the story of pipefish reproduction is among the more heartwarming in biology. Well, it was.

 

A new study shows that "pregnant" pipefish fathers actually suck the life out of some of their own offspring. *

 

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