Bengali Cardinals mating?

[Myka]

Those "orbs" were eggs. When Banggai breed the female releases the eggs and they cling to her vent in a bundle. The male does "drive-by" fertilization and when they are done he opens his mouth real wide and gulps the eggs into his oral cavity in one gulp where he holds them until they emerge as young juveniles about 28 days later. Sometimes, after he has gulped the eggs into his mouth there will still be a few attached to the female that will fall off in a few hours or a few days.