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    In mammals, pregnancy is the period of reproduction during which a female carries one or more live offspring from implantation in the uterus through gestation...
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    Gestation (category Reproduction in mammals)
    within the parent). It is typical for mammals, but also occurs for some non-mammals. Mammals during pregnancy can have one or more gestations at the...
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    Ectopic pregnancy is a complication of pregnancy in which the embryo attaches outside the uterus. Signs and symptoms classically include abdominal pain...
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  • in placental mammals varies from 18 days in jumping mice to 23 months in elephants. Generally speaking, fetuses of larger land mammals require longer...
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    Theria (redirect from Therian mammals)
    beast') is a subclass of mammals amongst the Theriiformes. Theria includes the eutherians (including the placental mammals) and the metatherians (including...
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  • possible pregnancy by thickening the protective layer around the endometrial wall, while non-menstruating placental mammals do not begin the pregnancy process...
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    period), and care of the newborn. Strophosomia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Veterinary obstetrics. Pregnancy (mammals) Theriogenology v t e...
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    A mammal (from Latin mamma 'breast') is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia (/məˈmeɪli.ə/). Mammals are characterized by the presence of milk-producing...
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    the exception and can be exceptionally rare in the largest mammals. A multiple pregnancy may be the result of the fertilization of a single egg that...
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  • of mammal gestation period estimated by experts in their fields. The mammals included are only viviparous (marsupials and placentals) as some mammals, which...
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    Lactation (category Reproduction in mammals)
    goats, it can happen without pregnancy. Nearly every species of mammal has nipples; except for monotremes, egg-laying mammals, which instead release milk...
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    in mammals. There is considerable variation between species in the length of pregnancy. At least one group of fish has been named after its pregnancy characteristics...
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    nutrition. The monotremes branched early from other mammals and do not have the teats seen in most mammals, but they do have mammary glands. The young lick...
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    Uterus (category Mammal female reproductive system)
    chorioallantoic placenta, similar to those of placental mammals. The fetus usually develops fully in placental mammals and only partially in marsupials including kangaroos...
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    there were many synapsid species that looked like mammals. The lineage leading to today's mammals split up in the Jurassic; synapsids from this period...
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    Endometrium (category Mammal female reproductive system)
    some other mammals, including apes, Old World monkeys, some species of bat, the elephant shrew and the Cairo spiny mouse. In most other mammals, the endometrium...
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    contains all mammals more closely related to placentals than to marsupials. Placental mammals are anatomically distinguished from other mammals by: a sufficiently...
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  • In obstetrics, gestational age is a measure of the age of a pregnancy taken from the beginning of the woman's last menstrual period (LMP), or the corresponding...
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    (2000). "The plasma membrane transformation facilitates pregnancy in both reptiles and mammals". Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A. 127 (4): 433–439...
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    Twin (redirect from Twin pregnancies)
    Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy. Twins can be either monozygotic ('identical'), meaning that they develop from one zygote, which...
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    Eutheria (redirect from Eutherian mammal)
    called Pan-Placentalia, is the clade consisting of placental mammals and all therian mammals that are more closely related to placentals than to marsupials...
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    Mammary gland (category Female mammals)
    gland is an exocrine gland in humans and other mammals that produces milk to feed young offspring. Mammals get their name from the Latin word mamma, "breast"...
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  • Interspecific pregnancy (literally pregnancy between species, also called interspecies pregnancy or xenopregnancy) is the pregnancy involving an embryo...
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    are a defining characteristic of placental mammals, but are also found in marsupials and some non-mammals with varying levels of development. Mammalian...
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    Maternal physiological changes in pregnancy are the adaptations that take place during pregnancy that enable the accommodation of the developing embryo...
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    Marsupial (redirect from Pouched Mammals)
    in Australia. Mammals portal Marsupial lawn Metatheria List of mammal genera List of recently extinct mammals List of prehistoric mammals This is supported...
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    Elephant (redirect from Elephant pregnancy)
    Kingdon, p. 69. Estes, R. (1991). The behavior guide to African mammals: including hoofed mammals, carnivores, primates. University of California Press. pp...
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  • of birds while the scrotum is only present in mammals. Regarding females, the vulva is unique to mammals with no homologue in birds, reptiles, amphibians...
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    shrews, also called jumping shrews or sengis, are small insectivorous mammals native to Africa, belonging to the family Macroscelididae, in the order...
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  • of more than one stage of developing offspring in the same animal. In mammals, it manifests as the formation of an embryo from a subsequent menstrual...
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