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Chameleons are different from many reptiles because some of the species, like the Jackson's chameleon, have live births. These species can give birth to eight to 30 young at one time after a gestation of four to six months.
 
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Animals Who Die Giving Birth. There are four common species of animals who die soon after giving birth. These are the octopus, the squid, salmon and the common mayfly. For the most part,the males die soon after fertilizing the female's eggs and the females live only long enough to birth their young before dying.
 
It sounds crazy, but suicidal reproduction - also known as semelparity - is common in nature. There are a surprising number of animals that immediately die after having sex or not long after the mating season. ... Males that die right after mating aren't sticking around to eat all the food and take up space.
 
The Male Phascogale is the Largest Mammal That Mates Itself to Death
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The male Australian phascogale is the largest known mammal to kick the bucket after sex for reasons similar to the antechinus and other marsupial mammals. Around the age of 11 month to 12 months, the male phascogale - if fortunate enough to be chosen by the dominant female - breeds in early winter. He expends so much energy trying to seal the deal it fries his own immune system. All three species of phascogale fall prey to stress-induced diseases and die, or they fall prey to prey and are eaten by owls, foxes, and cats. Either way, they're bound to die after their first and only breeding season.
 
The Male Little Red Kaluta is the Old Grassland-Dwelling Mammal to Go Out With a Bang
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The males in the Dasykaluta rosamondae or "Little Red Kaluta" species is one of four marsupial mammal species where the dudes are doomed to go out with a bang. Like the antechinus and phascogale, males die soon after their first mating period after reaching sexual maturity at about 10 months old. The Little Red Kaluta, however, is the only one of these marsupials to live in the grasslands of Australia. The rest of these unlucky guys dwell in the forest. Interestingly, in laboratory settings, the males kept alive after mating become "reproductively senile," which, no, doesn't mean they keeps losing their keys during sex - it means they're too old to effectively mate ... at the ripe old age of one.
 
The Trans Volcanic Bunchgrass Lizard Only Lives Long Enough to Mate Once
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Unique on this list, the male Trans Volcanic bunchgrass lizards of Mexico actually outlive the females by seven months, but both are destined to die after mating successfully. It isn't a dramatic death - they just simply die of "natural causes" after they've lived long enough to mate once. They reach sexual maturation within five months; after that, they spend the rest of their short lives - regardless of what season it is - trying to mate. Once it happens, females only have two months or so to live, while males can linger on for another ten or so.
 
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