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flora_explora@beehaw.org 10 months agoExcept that in cangaroos the mother actually needs to be pregnant and birth its babies first. In sea horses the female directly lays the eggs inside the pouch of the male, impregnating it, and the male then undergoes pregnancy. So actually very different to kangaroos?
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
No, it’s exactly like kangaroos. /s…
flora_explora@beehaw.org 10 months ago
My point was that it is nothing like in kangaroos. The comparison is just misleading.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
It’s like kangaroos in the sence the it’s a pouch not a uterus. Some fish put eggs in a cave, but that doesn’t make the cave pregnant.
Shhalahr@beehaw.org 10 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_in_fish
Going off of this, it’s just a matter of the term “pregnancy” being co-opted to describe something completely different from what it means in its original context. As does happen, even in science.