No.

He is bid farewell everyother day..
Then he disguises himself cleverly as Mr. Speeglish
or Dr. Rangehand.
The offspring brandish the farewell with
great admiration and he returns
with even more nipples than before.

So I can only figure the adoration causes him to
lactate and then the offpspring get nourishment
with pies containing the sweet milk
produced deep in what figures to be a record
number of mammary glands.

Its a unique selfsustaining foodweb.