Although they universally display signs of advanced age in dragon-type pokemon, no one has ever seen Drampa's pre-evolution, let alone a Drampa egg. Male and female Drampa placed together in captivity refuse to breed, and neither the substitution of a Ditto nor attempts to crossbreed them with other dragon pokemon have granted this species fertility. Aggressive genetic research is underway in pokemon laboratories around the world to clone them directly in the future, for with no breeding population, Drampa, despite their extremely long lifespans, must be considered doomed to extinction. (Current researchers, alas, have only managed as of this writing to resurrect Drampa fossils as rock pokemon.)
It appears that, as Drampa can not have children of their own, they have come to consider the young of all living things their children. Parents have often feared for the safety of their children in the wilderness, only to find them unharmed and playing with a wild Drampa – or, if they were harmed, to spot a badly wounded assailant fleeing the scene. Some overworked parents have even gone far enough to capture Drampa to watch their children, confident these pokemon can keep them happy and safe.
There are those who suspect that Drampa eggs do exist, but on timescales so long that no human has yet seen one. According to Alolan legend, however, it is humans that are Drampa's prior form – not just any humans, but specific ones protected by Drampa as children, who spend their later lives performing sufficiently heroic deeds. Although the tale is clearly mythological in structure, when one considers the natural mortality rate of even long-lived species of pokemon and the apparent stability in Drampa's observed population, it is surprisingly difficult to dismiss.