Drop Pop

Before an Altaria lays an egg, the yolk develops in the ovary, connecting to hair like folucules. The largest, will detach and make it’s way down the ovary duct. Outside, a male Altaria will do a sort of mating dance where his wings will flap out and he will throw his head back and call for a female. He’ll mount her soon after she appears and bends down low to the ground, releasing sperm. The sperm will travel through the vagina, into the duct where it meets with the yolk not long after it detaches from the ovary. 

The now fertilized egg, will begin to grow a film over it protecting it, turning it over and over through ridges along the walls of the ovary duct, this will be the white part of the egg, and give the baby water and other nutrients. Finally once the shell is formed, the female Altaria will begin to lay her egg. However, she’ll wait until she has more (about 7 more) before she starts incubating them. This will take a period of seven days (one egg every day) and finally incubation will last for twenty. 

Inside the egg as the babies develop, they begin to form scale like skin reminiscent of it’s dragon type heritage, and the shells are a lot softer, much like a dragon pokemon’s.

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A Dragonite will only mate once every two years. This makes both the protection of the mating season as well as the birth of the dratini that much more apparent. In Blackthorn, there’s a time of year (winter) where the mountains and dragon den are off limits to civilians and most people in the clan, when the dragonites are at their most volatile due to the intense sensation to mate. They do so for life, and the fight to win a girl over can be deadly. At first, a dragonite will roar as loud as he can to impress the girl, and if a challenger approaches, there will be a fight until one can not do so, or dies. 

After they find each other, the female will lay her egg after fertilization happens, only one, and much like a penguin, will go off for food afterwards. The father now takes over protecting the baby from the freezing temperatures.  The egg shells are soft as well, making it easier for death of the baby.

After almost a month, the baby hatches and the father will not move until the mother returns with food for the baby. Often times when a female dragonite loses the baby or does not find a mate, she will try to kidnap the dratini from it’s parents, usually it will end in the death of the other female, and on the rare occasion, the baby will be crushed to death after being smothered by the larger adult dragons. 

Hatching season in the spring is another time of year that the dragon den and the surrounding mountains become off limits, to protect people from protective parents. If a baby is lost, the mother and father have been shown to mourn the death, and will refuse to leave it for a week. It’ll take another two years for them to breed again.

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A male arcanine will mount himself onto a female and ejaculate quickly. Afterwards his penis becomes lodged in place, and fertilization begins. They go back to back, a trait learned to protect themselves while they continue. Each ovary, will become fertilized. For a typical birth, about seven will join the one of the thousands of sperm, to form seven pups in no more than 8 weeks. 

The female will begin to show signs early on, and when it’s time for birth, she’ll shred the paper or whatever it is under her to create a nest like structure- another trait learned after years of evolution in the species. The birth can either last an hour, or 36, but when the pups are finally born, they’re blind and can’t see. The highly sensitive nerves in their nose and hearing will help them find their mother’s teet, where they can get their food. After about two months, the puppies can open their eyes, see, and run around. Nine months later, they’ll begin to develop their ability to use fire attacks.

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Cooperajah work a little differently. They only have one baby at a time, and the male, a bull, will aim his penis at the female’s vagina and spray semen at it. From there the sperm have a long and difficult 24 hours before they make it to the egg, and only one with the most protein will break through the outer layer of the ovary. Much like Elephants irl, it takes almost two years before the baby is born, and they’re usually born at night to protect them from the sun when they’re first born. 

Cooperajah, like Arcanine, will only give birth to live babies, and it takes up until the baby evolves, for the brain to fully mature, almost like a human.

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Finally, we get to Milotic. Another pokemon that gives birth to live babies, but through eggs that reside in the mother. At a time, a female milotic can give birth up to 100 baby feebas at a time. The eggs stay inside the womb until fertilized, and then  it takes three months until the babies are born into the world. Milotic are another pokemon that mates for life, and the mating dance of these pokemon usually gets televised if caught on camera, or is a must see for divers. It’s one of the most beautiful sight anyone has seen.