It’ll be a casual science convo on Friday at 3pm Central. I’m not going to do a lot of prep work because I don’t have the time, but I can talk about new evolutionary features off the top of my head. How about mammary glands? You like mammary glands?
If you’re one of my patrons (only a dollar a month, cheap), you can also join in the Zoom call. If you hate long-winded livestreams, I’ll also pluck out one of the more interesting excerpts and post that on Saturday.
Thanks for the mammaries
BTW, are there any non-mammal species that have invented growing/excreting a nutricious substance for the young/fledgling/ larvae to consume?
Crop milk.
How about bees?
some species of cichlids excrete a special protenacious mucous for their young to eat even. some spiders literally give themselves for their kids to eat. many many many examples across all taxa, in fact.
There are a few species of caecilians that eat their mother’s skin.
I believe some of the poisonous dart frogs will lay unfertilized eggs in with their tadpoles as food. Not sure on the details or how wide-spread it is
@ 2. birgerjohansson : Caecilians – fossiorial (underground-living) worm/ snake/ eel -like amphibians produce edible skin that they feed to their young – & I see that # 5. kingoftown has beaten me to it. Still see :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caecilian#Diet
& remarkable video footage here :
Via BBC Life in Cold blood Attenborough doco
Plus more on this critter here :
Gross Science but good info clip
@6. lochaber : Yes. Think I’ve seen that in an Attenborough doco too :
Poison dart Frog parenting″
Pigeons give so called pigeon milks to their squabs.
Damn I dun did do missed the seanie show.