Are you objecting to my 'gave birth' over the original's 'started having babies'? Like I said[0], I had to massage the title a bit to fit here. That doesn't so

Are you objecting to my 'gave birth' over the original's 'started having babies'? Like I said[0], I had to massage the title a bit to fit here. That doesn't sound any more exclusively mammalian than the original to my ear. I suppose I could have said 'laid eggs', but that's more of a deviation, and doesn't carry the same implication that they were viable. (It didn't just excrete old eggs, it reproduced after having been revived.) [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36949069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36949069