{"id":729,"date":"2007-12-18T00:16:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T22:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/18\/komodo-mary-the-virgin-birth-self-fertilisation-among-reptiles\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T00:16:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T22:16:26","slug":"komodo-mary-the-virgin-birth-self-fertilisation-among-reptiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2007\/12\/18\/komodo-mary-the-virgin-birth-self-fertilisation-among-reptiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Komodo Mary &amp; the Virgin Births &#8211; Self-fertilisation among reptiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2006\/12\/20\/ukomodo120.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/dec2007archive\/ukomodo.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Komodo Embryo\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKomodo embryo<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A female Komodo dragon without a male Komodo dragon is like a fish without a bicycle.&#8221; &#8211; <em>Anonymous Lesbian-separatist herpetologist.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parthenogenesis\" target=\"_blank\">Parthenogenesis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2006\/12\/21\/ndragon21.xml\" target=\"_blank\">the production of offspring without fertilization by a male<\/a>, is carried out by King Edward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/x862338730n67u56\/\" target=\"_blank\">potatoes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwell-synergy.com\/action\/showPdf?submitPDF=Full+Text+PDF+%286%2C195+KB%29&amp;doi=10.1111%2Fj.1469-8137.1910.tb05550.x\" target=\"_blank\">bees and greenfly<\/a> but is rare in <a href=\"http:\/\/encarta.msn.com\/encyclopedia_761558106\/Vertebrate.html\" target=\"_blank\">vertebrate species<\/a>. &#8211;  <em>Telegraph.uk.co<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Virgin births excite scientists<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"storyby\">By Roger Highfield, Science Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><!--NO VIEW--><\/p>\n<li><span class=\"listory\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=OPHLMJW3K4QPFQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=\/news\/2006\/12\/20\/ukomodo220.xml\">Komodo Dragon facts<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<p>Last Updated: 2:03am GMT 21\/12\/2006<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\">Nearly all vertebrates breed by sexual <a href=\"http:\/\/encarta.msn.com\/encyclopedia_761572784\/Reproduction.html\" class=\"qv\">reproduction<\/a>, either laying eggs or giving birth to live young. The few exceptions to this rule include animals such as North American <a href=\"http:\/\/encarta.msn.com\/encyclopedia_761585006\/Whiptail.html\" class=\"qv\">whiptail<\/a> lizards, which can breed without mating in a process known as <a href=\"http:\/\/encarta.msn.com\/encyclopedia_761561648\/Parthenogenesis.html\" class=\"qv\">parthenogenesis<\/a>. In several species of these lizards, males have never been found.<\/font> &#8211; <strong><em>MSN Encarta.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Komodo embryo &#8220;A female Komodo dragon without a male Komodo dragon is like a fish without a bicycle.&#8221; &#8211; Anonymous Lesbian-separatist herpetologist. Parthenogenesis, the production of offspring without fertilization by a male, is carried out by King Edward potatoes, bees and greenfly but is rare in vertebrate species. &#8211; Telegraph.uk.co Virgin births excite scientists By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[493,534,1192,1243,1350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embryo","category-feminism","category-photography","category-propaganda","category-science-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-bL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}