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How do mermaids reproduce?

I don't know if this crossed anyone's mind or anything yet, but I was watching The Little Mermaid the other day and I realized that mermaids don't have anyway to have children. Has anyone noticed? Idk, I know its targeted for children so they don't have to explain, but its kinda wierd.
How do mermaids reproduce?
 hisblueeyes posted over a year ago
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PeterPansgirl12 said:
Lol, yeah I noticed. Idk, it's Disney I really dont think they would explain that sort of thing.

So, I'm going to answer the logical way.
Magic ;)
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Lol, yeah I noticed. Idk, it's Disney I really dont think they would explain that sort of thing.

So, I'm going to answer the logical way.
Magic ;)
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Haha yeah I guess so :D
hisblueeyes posted over a year ago
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Magic!
tribute13 posted over a year ago
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I agree.
ARIEL-RAPUNZEL posted over a year ago
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weaslyismyking said:
They're asexual. They undergo mitosis.

No, actually, Neptune takes his triton and POOF! women get pregnant.

Serious answer: They lay eggs. It only makes sense since that's what fish do and what's the bottom half of the mermaid? Fish. There must be a flap of scales concealing mermaids' cloaca (would explain how they piss too). Once she lays her eggs, the merman comes along and fertilizes them with his sperm. But, unlike fish, mermaids breast-feed, like mammals. They have boobs after all, the whole purpose of which is to produce milk so they must breast-feed.
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I agree with the serious answer.
TigerRanma posted over a year ago
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I agree
tiagih posted over a year ago
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As a biologist, I give my full approval
sabrinchix posted over a year ago
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there's one thing i dont understand in that how does the merman sperm in the first place?
nobody_knows_ posted over a year ago
disneyprince said:
I love that we're thinking about mermaids logically. Nothing about a mermaid is plausible or logical. The mermaids we see in Disney do not have gills, so we're assuming they have lungs, since they have the upper bodies of humans, but that makes absolutely no sense, so their reproductive organs probably make the same amount of sense.
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x-menobsessed26 said:
I first asked my mom that question when I was six and was promptly told to go to my room and I shouldn't be thinking such things. I guess she thought I was thinking about sex, but I wasn't. (does that even make sense?) I used to wonder how they could eat and not have to use the bathroom too. Weird. I guess they're an exception to the rules of life.
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They probably do use the bathroom (well, since they aren't real- they don't & it's not actually a "bathroom". but in the minds of the creators I'm sure they do excrete the waste from their bodies b/c they have gils and fish usually release amonia through their gills (instead of pee-ing), so I'm sure mermaids would too. Plus fish do have small holes for pooping- so I'm sure mermaids have the same thing.
jemgrl323 posted over a year ago
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Then they should be able to have babies like fish do, right? If they're THAT much like a fish...
x-menobsessed26 posted over a year ago
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Yup
jemgrl323 posted over a year ago
vivianchen32 said:
because she live in water she became a mermaid
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emilypenguin55 said:
im with peterpansgirl 12 macig is the answer
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jemgrl323 said:
Mermaids are supposed to be a species of fish. So they would reproduce the same way fish reproduce... by laying eggs or through live bearing.
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TigerRanma said:
I guess they come out of eggs. *shrugs* I'd like to think that mermaids give birth like mammals, like whales and dolphins do. But now I think Ariel and her sisters came out of eggs like fish do.
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faya27 said:
I never thought of this.
But I will say this. Because they're half human and half fish. Humans and whales are mammal so Merfolk reproduce babies the same way we, dolphins and whales do by live bearing.
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mechow52 said:
They come out of giant clams
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Purpledolphin said:
Probably the same way dolphins do. I don't know?
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HiHeroMans said:
If you've ontice thers is a ridge at the base of their tail which possibly means there is something under it like humans wear pants. its an idea but its very contraversial

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yboocs said:
They unsrew their belly buttons and an egg pops out. The guy spits on it and bam it's a fertilized egg. A couple months later it hatches and you have a baby mermaid!
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I don't think that's how it works.
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Frozengirl11 said:
They're half fish, so they lay eggs. Question answered!
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KataraLover said:
They mold the children out of silly putty! I don't know and if we haven't figured it out by now we aren't going to anytime soon.
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jj384 said:
Like other fish, they lay eggs.
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lililc said:
posibly the way fish do it , sure that ariel got legs so she did it like a normal human
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pokemonyellow said:
Fish reproduce by having the female lay eggs then the male releases a cloud of sperm that goes to the eggs and fertilizes them.
It's safe to assume merpeople reproduction is the same.
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MariahHerondale said:
I think... Well, since they are humanoid and have breasts, they are mammals, I think they reproduce like dolphins do.
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Jazz9311 said:
I think it be more like dolphins and not fish. Like swimming on top of each other. Ariel is we assume romantically and seggualy attracted to the prince, fish don't have that because they don't have seggs. Yes she has scales but shes a magical creature. So yeah.
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