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to 160 of 223 Things start to get complicated when you consider
their life cycle. Let's start with a feeding animal living on a
lobster's mouthparts: this individual – it's hard to assign a
sex – can then produce one of three kinds of offspring: a
"Pandora" larva, a "Prometheus" larva or a female.The Pandora
larva develops into another feeding adult – a straightforward
case of asexual reproduction. By contrast, the female remains
inside the adult and awaits a male – but, attentive readers will
be crying, what male?The answer lies in the Prometheus larva.
This attaches itself to another feeding adult, then produces two
or three males from within itself. These dwarf males, which are
even more internally complex than the other stages, seek out the
females and fertilise them – though the details are unknown.Once
the female has been fertilised, she leaves the adult's body and
hunkers down in a sheltered region of the lobster's mouthparts.
Her body, no