I believe that what this question is talking about is how quickly animals reproduce. Do they have many offspring in a given period of time, or do they only have a few?
Organisms that have use a fast reproductive strategy are generally smaller organisms that have short lives. You can see this in fruit flies, for example, or in rabbits (much bigger and longer-lived than fruit flies, but small compared to other mammals).
Compare that to organisms like whales and elephants. Big animals that live for a long time do not reach sexual maturity until the are older and then have many fewer offspring than smaller organisms.
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