Marine animals such as corals synchronize their spawning to maximize the probability of an encounter between eggs and sperm, as they release eggs into the water before fertilization occurs.

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  How Lunar Cycles Guide the Spawning of Sea Creatures

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• How Lunar Cycles Guide the Spawning of Sea Creatures www.smithsonianmag.com Smithsonian Magazine via serper

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• spawning concept
• coral concept
• marine species concept