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Eggless lizards

Baby chameleons emerge not as eggs, but as live young. The father has disappeared and this strategy means that the female can manage their care on her own: there were no eggs to guard and she was able to take her embryos with her to find food. She can only give birth to as many as she can carry inside her, but each is safer in there. Once born, there’s no childhood for these little lizards. The mother abandons them and they have to fend for themselves from the start.

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