1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Zenneth (zennx) http://rainbowdash.net/zennx http://rainbowdash.net/notice/4500685 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/60" class="url" title="Scribus Mustella"><span class="fn nickname mention">scribus</span></a></span> another good question is, do they have nipples?<br />nipples are used as mammals to feed their young, but the mermaids body seems to be more suitable to external reproduction (i.e. placing eggs on the seabed and waiting for a male to fertilize them there).<br />This, however doesn't stop the young from needing milk.<br />(look at the echidna or platypus for examples of egg-laying milk drinkers)<br />the problem now gets to what do they eat to produce milk?<br />humans regularly get most of their calcium intake from vegetables, but mermaids seem to be more predator carnivore than omnivore, also algae doesn't grow past certain depths (considering that a feeding mother would either prefer to stay in the deep where the larger opportunist predators are fewer).<br />another option would be eating actual bone, but that only leads us back to the teeth debate