Gestation lasts for 9 months, with females giving birth to their first offspring between the ages of 14 and 15 years.
This leads to Shogo killing various animals upon seeing the love they give to their offspring.
When the female is close to giving birth, it leaves the group for a time to give birth to its offspring.
The mother then appears to "give birth" to her offspring.
Mothers build nests to give birth to their offspring that average in height from six to twelve meters.
Parents have a role, not only to give physical love, but also to give spiritual life to their offspring.
However, kauri trees can produce seeds while relatively young, taking only 50 years or so before giving rise to their own offspring.
She was capable of giving as much love to an adopted child as she would have given to her own offspring.
The death-swarms had given birth to their offspring.
Like the necrogenes of Voerster, she gave herself to her ungrateful offspring.