Talk:Ocampa

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[edit] Elogium

The article assumes that because Ocampan women are only able to undergo elogium once in their lives that the population must ether be halved every generation or Ocampan women store the father's genetic material like a queen bee. A third possibility may be that a majority amount of the Ocampan born are female and males reproduce with more than one mate. This would be an example of another way Ocampan maintan their population. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.173.119.123 (talk).

I don't really see any problem adding this alternative speculation to the article, so long as its brief.– Cleanse 02:51, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Even if there were only one male, who lived forever, all Ocampa born were female, and all female Ocampa born gave birth, this would still only result in a static population size. Assuming that men cannot give birth, then the established canon that women can mate/give birth only once forces a decreasing population, unless twins and multiplets are the norm. This, however, does not seem to be the case in Voyager - all births seen are of single offspring. 213.107.1.54 10:06, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

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