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 Mating Habits The attrition rate of Tuberosum alpinus by predation and lack of climactic adaptation is such that a vigorous mating habit has evolved. The Female is permanently in oestrus during the warmer months, fertilization is internal, and the breeding cycle short; twenty-one days from impregnation to emergent young. Unusually for this method of copulation, she does not gestate. In the privacy of her cave the ovigerous Female lays between four and six hard-shelled eggs. These are brooded by the Male, who grows a dense mat of hair on his bottom for this purpose soon after he has mated. |
Environment Mating Habits Nurture of Young Annual Cycle 
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