Someone who answers a direct question with three stupid, usually unrelated, questions. The “spawning questions” are designed to be just a little more obtuse or urgent than your original direct question.
What is most annoying, is that the Question Spawner actually believes that he/she has answered your original question.
A Question Spawner is able to magnify the confusion of any given situation exponentially -- especially in large group settings.
You..."Joe, when will you be done with the project?"
Question Spawner
"Do you know when Bill is going to be back from vacation?"
"Have you heard whether we are going to release the product into China?"
A unknown person you have never seen before, often almost appearing to have "spawned" into existence. A spawner has no defining traits, and often are completely forgettable. Spawners behave in a very similar fashion to video game NPCs, in that they appear out of thin air and rarely possess a personality that isn't surface-level.
See, in the cycle of a fish's life, spawning is done right near the very end. The fish swim up the river and they lay their eggs and then they die and wash up on the banks of the river.
Bears would not likely be very reliable/legitimate spawnsors regarding research of da salmon-run, since they would likely just EAT said tasty vulnerables rather than actually being interested in da study of them. :P