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[bostle01]

which animal, detaches it's arm to produce a baby.

[mandimoo]

no idea if its right, but my first instinct was STARFISH

[burnhal]

starfish reproduce by the conventional egg and sperm route. Wondered if this was more of a quiz type question eg if you took armadillo and removed arm you would get adillo. Not the right answer of course...cant think of any that would fit the bill at the mo

[burnhal]

but then again.... it appears that a starfish arm that has been dismembered can grow into a new starfish provided part of the central body is attached.

[gen2]

You were all on the righ track. The answer is the OCTOPUS which has a special arm that is specifically for reproduction and deposits a sperm capsule within the female. I'll now go and lok for a site that confirms this.

[gen2]

This is probably true of all the cephalopods ( cuttlefish, squids, octopuses, nautili etc

see here and here . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?i d=330161

"In the octopus and many cephalopods, the males have a special tentacle with which they insert their spermatophores under the mantle of the female. The tentacle is then retracted for future use.

The male paper nautilus is more profligate with its tentacles ... His spermatophore-bearing tentacle detaches itself from the body and swims -- under its own power -- to the female, being in effect a swimming penis."

[shylock73]

gen2,,thats weird,no joy in that then!!!!!