Brooding fishes take up nutrients from their own children

Sunday, January 3, 2010 - 21:14 in Biology & Nature

In the pipefish, the male cares for the offspring. Apart from the ones he sucks the life out of. Researchers have just discovery filial cannibalism in the pipefish.

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