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Individuals live for 10 years. Their reproductive behavior has also changed. Males mature twice as fast as females and once fully grown, will go off and claim a stretch of beach (about 8 kilometers across) as its territory, usually in the vicinity of a woollycoat colony. He will then take a couple kills a month and leave them out on the beach for a female to find; the male needs to be careful to not leave the carcasses out too long or the stench might attract unwanted attention from other predators or its prey. Once a female is discovered he will do a short display of slashing his spikes and jumping. If the female stays they will mate and give birth to 2 chicks (usually a male and a female) every 2 years. The parents take turns looking after them, trading pouch duty every week, allowing their mate time to acquire enough fat from hunting to take over the next shift. The chicks are fed regurgitate blood until they've grown out their teeth, claws and raspy tongue (another 3 months for females, about 1.5 months for males). After which the free adult will teach the grown chicks how to hunt, first small prey and later fully grown woollycoats (about 3 weeks).

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