Most female flies take a low-rent approach to parenthood, depositing scores of seed-sized eggs in the trash or on pet scat to hatch, leaving the larvae to fend for themselves.
Not so the female tsetse fly. She gestates her young internally, one at a time, and gives birth to them live. When each pampered offspring pulls free of her uterus after nine days, mother and child are pretty much the same size.
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