He probably mean clams, oysters, and/or mussels.

I don't think the marks can move; I think they only appear when a bond is made and disappear when the mate dies.

She is a mermaid.

Some people are able to accurately replicate things they've seen. She has admitted, in her thought processes, that she's seen these things on TV and done some of them with family whose place was in the country.

He did take Bai and bit her to force a mate bond, but he never r*ped anyone; Bai has verbally and non-verbally given her consent every time they've had s*x. The mermaid female he is later accused of kidnapping actually voluntarily left with him because she didn't want to be a merperson breeding machine. Curtis is actually a very good beastman/person because he genuinely cares about others. He's been doing his best for Bai and their family.

poikilotherm, just a fancy term for ectotherm or "cold-blooded".

Yep, she gets pregnant with a girl after accepting Winston.

From my understanding most Chinese female children are shown how to cook, and how to do other "domestic" tasks, by the women in their families (I know some other countries do this with all children). I know that here in the USA children are usually taught the basic skills needed for independent living starting at a young age. My son is only 4 years old and can basically take care of himself aside from driving, cooking meals, and having a job; he's started learning things like how to do dishes and laundry (he hasn't done them on his own yet because I feel he needs to be older) just from watching me.

I'm thinking it's more like horchata as far as alcohol content.

They need to start fending for themselves. They'll be grown sooner than one would think and they need to be able to survive in that harsh world.

Having cubs matures him quite a bit. He becomes a bit of a stick-in-the-mud type parent.

It was a thing in England as well; other places too, if I recall correctly. Men were considered useless when it came to routine childbirth; only a birth requiring surgical intervention was viewed as a birth where a man, the surgeon, was useful.

Technically, he's just being a daddy. In polyamorous relationships, at least in real life, EVERYONE is an EQUAL parent to any and ALL children regardless of who the legal/biological parents are.

One CAN suffer burns from hot asphalt and hot metal; it CAN cause permanent damage which is why people are advised to leave their car windows opened on hot days. However, NATURAL surfaces like grass and dirt don't get nearly as hot as asphalt and metal; natural stone can get hot but usually isn't at the surface level where one walks. Part of what makes asphalt get so hot is that it is black and therefore basically absorbs light/heat. Pure metal doesn't exist in nature either, at least not in quantities that would make it a surface one would walk on. I go barefoot ~90% of the time I'm not at work and only put on shoes when I have to walk on burning-hot asphalt/sidewalk.

He's supposed to have two but his marks seem to be forgotten by the artists until he's about to get a third.

It does eventually happen.

He actually just blinds himself because he thinks he deserves to suffer as long as possible with the knowledge of what he's done. He had children with his mother as well and the daughters were supposedly very beautiful and intelligent.

It's basic physics and the knowledge one gets from an elementary school education in the USA (or at least the knowledge one used to get). I can see not only how but also why she knew nets would work. Anyone who hasn't lived isolated from society knows that nets can be used to catch things (for example, fish nets) or keep things out (for example, mosquito nets) and that nets have been used to protect crops. I learned this, and much more (like the life cycles of various species, how to make rudimentary batteries, and many other things that most people never need to know), in elementary school in the USA.

Anyone with a complete elementary school education knows about early agriculture, including using trenches (irrigation) to get water to crops.

Fathers are just as capable as mothers to stay home with their children; Bai Qingqing has just as much right to take a break away from home as Curtis does and actually has MORE of a right to a break from home as Curtis regularly leaves home. Stay-at-home parents need regular breaks from home, that aren't a job away from home, or they go stir-crazy which isn't good for them and definitely isn't good for their kids.