Kapitel 17

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• Photoperiod A way to know when to reproduce considering how many hours of light it is during the day
• Semelparitly When the individual is programmed to only reproduce once in its lifetime
• Iteroparous Individuals that can reproduce two or more times during their lives
• Embryonic diapause start to develop a embryo but then stops for a while. How long the pause will be is flexible
• Delayed implantation When a mammal gets an offspring and directly after giving birth get inseminated to get a new one, to get both offsprings to survive she pauses the implantation after the blastocyst stage
• Postpartum estrus When the individuals can reproduce a new offspring that starts to grow inside their body at the same time as they are feeding and taking care of the newborn offspring
• Short-day-breeding When mammals reproduce during the cold months so that their offsprings will be born during spring/ summer
• Protandrous Animal that can change their sex during life, start off as a male and later turn into female
• Protogynous Animal that can change their sex during life, starts off as a female and later turning into a male
• Temperature-depending-sex-determination Where nest temperature decides which sex the offsprings will get

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