Seeking help regarding animal life history
Seeking as many examples as possible and slowly running out of ideas and references, I’m turning to the mighty wise blogosphere. Hopefully, people with more experience than me will be willing to contribute.
I am in need of a few examples of spatial and or temporal separation of adults and their developmental stages (eggs/larvae/adults). I’m looking for examples like the American salmon who spawns in streams and rivers and dies afterwords, never meeting their offspring. Or like the in the case with some freshwater shrimp, where eggs/larvae are laid into a river and are swept downstream. While floating towards the sea, they sexually mature and slowly return to their default breeding ground. Or perhaps snakes that guard their eggs, leaving them just prior to hatching. Examples from any phylum are welcome. References very welcome.
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Comment by Affiliate Promotion — 26 March, 2009 @ 19:49