Information Junk
The (mostly) visual findings of a San Francisco librarian
15 June 2008
Pipefish Are SuperDads!
They won't be opening any presents today - no neckties or cologne for them - but
bay pipefish are exemplary father figures whose paternal duties go way beyond what most dads manage to accomplish
. These tiny aquatic creatures carry the fertilized eggs of their future offspring, and deliver them as well. "Wouldn't it be a perfect world if all males would give birth?" asked Melissa Chaney, an aquatic biologist at San Francisco's Aquarium of the Bay
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Bastards.
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