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Captive snake has virgin birth
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I take it back, you were just snake shaming her. Don't spill people's personal business online!
if the tea too hot it might spill
i cannot be held responsible
This is so messed up, snake can't even have a friend without these kinds of rumors getting started. I wonder if Mary had to go through this?
she out here doing the snakey shake for the world to see
if she a slut she a slut and I ooop....
i seen strippers sky-pole dance so hard that if a divine conception didn't happen, it should have.
I saw a movie once about a hypothetical scenario in which parthenogenesis started happening spontaneously in humans. It became increasingly common until it got to the point where men where no longer necessary and women rounded them all up and banished them to Australia.
Stuff mutates all the time. We're all mutants. This is probably just a snake doing what snakes can do, even if they rarely do it successfully. It might be significant that this documented instance occurred in a species of a solitary reptile, a particular species that has a visible pregnancy and gives birth unlike nearly all reptiles, and in this instance lives in a zoo enclosure where she can be easily monitored.
These factors tend to weigh heavily towards detection of parthenogenesis, even though it might be just as common or even more common in other complex animals that live in less easily observed conditions.
No. Reproduction in higher animals is heavily biased towards sexual reproduction, but reproduction isn't intrinsically sexual otherwise we wouldn't have to worry about bacteria.
Lucifer vindicated after all this time. Bless this holy serpent.
Link to her OnlyFans page?I saw a movie once about a hypothetical scenario in which parthenogenesis started happening spontaneously in humans. It became increasingly common until it got to the point where men where no longer necessary and women rounded them all up and banished them to Australia.
Yes but my question was more, how does the animal knows that there are no male around and that it therefore needs to do parthenogenesis to produce offspring?
Evolution in general is easy to understand to me: for example the giraffe has a long neck not because one day it decided to grew its neck, but because among its ancestors those which had a long neck made more offspring than those which had short necks (which died out). But for something like rare parthenogenesis in snakes, I don't understand what the trigger is.
The animal doesn't make a conscious choice. There is no big red button in a snake's mind that she has to press, no special procedures she has to follow (healthy snakes have excellent muscle tone so Kegels and Pilates exercises are unnecessary.) She just goes on being a snake, and once in a blue moon, in the right conditions in the right snake, you'll get an incidence of parthenogenesis.
It's not common knowledge, but it's not an uncommon phenomenon, either.
You find it more in smaller organisms than you do you bigger, multicell organisms, though.
In reptiles? Yes. In other animals and particularly in insects, the offspring from parthogenesis can be male (bee drones, for instance), female (ants) or both male and female (aphids).
Parthogenesis isn't a single reproduction strategy, it's just a bin into which we sex-obsessed humans throw all the various asexual reproduction strategies.
this reminds me of the episode in House M.D when House lies to a couple that their kid is the product of parthenogenesis to save their marriage. When it's revealed that she just straight up cheated on him :)