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• a  producing living young (not eggs)

• This olive-colored, viviparous cousin of the guppy thrives in the stagnant waters where mosquitoes breed, lives to a ripe old age of two or three years, and never loses its taste .
• They were warm-blooded, milk-giving, viviparousmammals from tiny moles to a shaggy monster with columnar legs and a neck long enough to browse on treetops, a sort of .
• Another observation: Small moppets were seriously, navely interested in the reproductions of plants and of oviparous (egg-laying) animals; but when viviparous (birth-giving .

• live-bearing

• oviparous

News & Articles

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• Indiana Historical Society's Audubon works sell for $3.7M at Sotheby's auction
  Sotheby’s auction house in New York City on Tuesday auctioned the Indiana Historical Society’s sets of John James Audubon’s “The Birds of America” and “Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America” for a combined price of $3.77 million, according to a news release from the IHS.
  April 1, 2014 - Evansville Courier & Press
• Historical Society bags $3.2M from auction of Audubon works
  The Indiana Historical Society paid $4,000 for "The Birds of America" in 1933 and $900 for "Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America" in 1951.
  April 1, 2014 - Indianapolis Business Journal

Quotes

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• John Bachman in Los Angeles Times
  In their 1854 book, "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America," John James Audubon and John Bachman described the patience with which a jaguar waited for its prey at a watering hole.