Well, since it's oddworld I won't say anything IS like what I said. But if it is anything like Earth, then the best theory for Mudokon reproduction would be the one that is the most practical and/or easy and/or one that would ensure their survival i.e a method of reproduction that would ensure a large variety in the gene pool.
Well there are a couple of working theories:
The drone idea based on bees, the hermaphrodite idea about Sam being self-impregnating and the idea that Sam is able to lay fertile eggs without sex(like this lizard or in certain conditions, aphids).
The idea of drones is plausible. If they were like bees or ants etc. they would die after they had "it" and the sperm would be enough to last Sam until a certain point near her death when she would stop laying eggs. There would be a greater variation in the gene pool.
Self-fertilisation which sometimes occurs in plants would be very easy. But if the Mudokons are to survive they would have problems with the very small variety in the gene pool.
Asexual reproduction would also be simple and practical but it would have the same problems with self-fertilisation.
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