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Pregnant Reptile
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Most Writers Are Human, and humans are mammals that give live birth. Despite the vast majority of the animal kingdom having other ways to reproduce, some writers, especially when writing an anthropomorphic animal work, may find laying and rearing eggs odd and have an animal that does not give live birth reproduce the mammal way. This trope also applies to monotremes (that special order of mammals that lay eggs), mythological creatures that are not usually depicted as giving live birth, and even Animate Inanimate Objects if they are shown getting pregnant or giving birth. The animal does not necessarily have to be shown giving birth, as a pregnant belly is enough to show that it is a live birth.note At least in fiction. Similarly, despite the title, if the non-mammal is shown birthing live young, they don’t have to be shown getting pregnant. It should be noted that, despite what is often taught in schools about reptiles as egg-layers, quite a few species of snakes and lizards (as well as fish and worm species) are in fact capable of carrying and bearing true live young; this is not a feature limited to mammals. In fact, an entire group of snakes— vipers— actually got their name because of this trait. Also, any egg-laying species that undergoes internal fertilization will carry the offspring within its body for a period, until it comes time to lay eggs. Sub-Trope of Artistic License – Biology and Pregnancy Does Not Work That Way. Contrast with Whale Egg, in which a mammal reproduces the non-mammal way. Can go hand-in-hand with Non-Mammal Mammaries. Interspecies Romance examples count too if the character giving birth to the non-mammal is oviparous but the partner not giving birth is viviparous (never vice-versa though). See also Mister Seahorse for another trope about characters getting pregnant/giving birth when they biologically shouldn't be able to. |
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Discussed in Dinosaur Train's "Zepplin" arc. When the young Polycotylus says she's one day old, the kids point out that she's half the size of her mother, and Don wonders if her egg was huge. The Polycotylus says no, her species gives live birth. | |
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Lara-Le from Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) is an echidna, in Real Life an egg-laying mammal, who was pregnant both with Knuckles, and his half-brother. One issue states that an echidna egg typically hatches three days after it has been laid. | |
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Players can invoke this in The Sapling, as whether or not an animal gives birth to live young or lays eggs is completely independent of what type of animal they are. | |
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Serina: A number of bird groups develop full viviparity over time: The vivas are flightless birds that carry their huge eggs until or even just after they hatch. The original species essentially broods fully formed eggs within their bodies, but later ones create increasingly neotenic and shell-less eggs. Placental birds descend from the changeling birds, which metamorphose from "larvae" similar to insects and hatch from tiny eggs lacking much yolk. Some lineages evolve the ability to retain these larvae inside their oviduct and nourish them with their bloodstream until the young are born live and well-developed. |
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In Franklin, the main character, a turtle, is eventually given a little sister. But the book has the mother going through a normal pregnancy instead of her laying an egg. The same is true in the adaptation film, Franklin and the Green Knight. | |
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Hamster's Paradise: The rattiles are scaly cold-blooded lizard analogues but they still give birth to live young due to their mammalian heritage. However, they have lost their mammary glands and give birth to highly precocial young because the mothers either won't care for their offspring at all or will only put in a token effort to feed and protect them before leaving so she doesn't eat them when her maternal hormones run out. | |
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Inverted in Rocko's Modern Life; Filburt is a turtle who is married to a cat, Dr. Paula Hutchinson. When the two of them have a baby, Dr. Hutchinson ends up laying an egg, which hatches into two baby turtles, a kitten... and a steer that looks like Heffer for some reason. | |
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Slimey's mother, a worm, was shown pregnant in Episode 3307 of Sesame Street, even though real-life worms hatch from eggs. | |
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In Ennui GO!, Ally is shown to be pregnant in the final right panel of "Those Guys." As a reminder, Ally is half-alligator. | |
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In the Star Trek universe, Cardassians resemble reptiles more than mammals. They like lying on hot rocks in heat too intense for most other races, and they have patches of scales on their skin and have flared necks akin to snakes. While we've never seen a pregnant Cardassian, they are known to have reproduced with Bajorans, and one woman thought breeding with a human was possible. | |
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In The Newest Addition: Irrilia, it is implied that Irrilia's birth was a live one, Mona Lisa having delivered her at a hospital in her home planet. What makes this trope apply is that Mona Lisa is a Salamandrian (a humanoid salamander alien) while the father Raphael is a mutant-turtle. | |
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Issue #115 of Invincible shows a prominent shot of Emperor Thragg's personal maternity ward on Thraxa, where hundreds of blue mantis-like Thraxan women are shown either cradling pregnant bellies or giving birth to his half-Viltrumite spawn. Who are born looking almost exactly like human babies, save for the bluish-purple tint to their skin. | |
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The Loud House: In "Friends in Dry Places", a snake is said to have given birth in Lincoln's sleeping bag. Justified, since some kinds of real-life snakes really appear to give live birth. | |
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Futurama: Done with Kif, who is an alien that is basically humanoid, but has Bizarre Alien Biology that points to him being some sort of amphibian. When he gets pregnant, however, he winds up giving birth to a collection of tadpoles. It's an interspecies example, too, as the biological mother is Leela. | |
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In Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue, one mission has Ty dealing with an accidental roadblock to help a woman in labor get to the hospital. The woman in question is a koala, and while koalas are mammals, they're marsupials and thus have short pregnancies, with young born very early in development and largely nourished inside their pouches. This pregnancy, however, is shown as human-like, with the koala woman having a large abdomen and labored breathing. | |
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Robot Chicken: "Potato Whore" has Mrs. Potato Head giving birth to a carrot, to which Mr. Potato Head replies, "You Whore". | |
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Anadi Jokka from Tales of the Jokka give live birth. Although it's not entirely clear whether they are mammals even though they lactate, have breasts, and have hair, considering that they're aliens and have been known to change sexes during puberty. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In the episode "Truth or Square", it is revealed that SpongeBob's first time tasting the Krusty Krab was when his mother was pregnant with him. He is shown in her womb, being fed Krabby Patties through an umbilical cord (which he pulls off his abdomen and sucks!). While sponges don't actually give live birth, they are biological hermaphrodites and are capable of sexual reproduction in addition to the better-known method of asexual budding that the show itself popularized much earlier in its run. In the episode "Pets or Pests", SpongeBob adopts a worm that he thinks is a male, which then gets pregnant and gives live birth. SpongeBob then spends the rest of the episode trying to find someone to adopt the baby worms. Although he wasn't actually pregnant, Mr. Krabs disguised as a pregnant woman in the episode "The Cent of Money". Then there is the episode "Spot Returns" where Plankton's amoeba puppy gets pregnant and gives birth. This also turns out to be a case of Your Tomcat Is Pregnant like the worm example above. |
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Minecraft: While chickens do lay eggs that occasionally spawn chicks when thrown, they can also breed in the standard way like mammals in the game do, which resembles kissing followed by an instant live birth. In a similar vein, bees go through the same breeding process as any other breedable mob in the game. |
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The Unfunnies depicts Sally Gator with a baby bump when she and her husband conceive a new child. | |
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One South Park episode had an ostrich giving birth to a half-human half-ostrich child after a PETA member has sex with her. | |
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Alien: Resurrection: It's unclear exactly what taxonomy the Xenomorphs would belong to, but they're clearly not mammals since they do not have mammary glands.note Under normal taxonomic rules, the correct answer would be "none" since they're not related to/descended from any Earth organisms. However, because of retaining some of Ripley's DNA after gestating inside her, the new Queen ends up birthing a live newborn. | |
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