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Parental Care in Fishes (With Diagram) | Vertebrates | Chordata | Zoology

Parental care can be defined as an association between the parents and the offsprings, so as to increase the chances of the survival of the young ones, and in fishes it includes all the post-spawning care of the offsprings by the parents. Most fishes do not care for their eggs or youngs and leave the spawning grounds soon after fertilisation. [...]

By Bhavya S|2017-07-14T08:37:57+00:00July 14, 2017|Fishes|Comments Off

Parental Care in Fishes | Zoology

In this article we will discuss about the parental care in fishes. Many species of fishes do not care for their eggs and fingerlings. They leave the spawning grounds after fertilization. For such species of fishes the lacking parental care behaviour is compensated by the production of large number of eggs. Such fishes lay over 300 million eggs at a [...]

By Meghna G|2016-10-20T08:57:20+00:00October 20, 2016|Fish|Comments Off