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Reticulated Python Has Virgin Birth 1'st Recorded in Species

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From: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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World's Longest Snake Has Virgin Birth—First Recorded in Species

An 11-year-old reticulated python produced six babies without mating in 2012.

By Linda Qiu
National Geographic
Published October 23, 2014


Virgin birth has been documented in the world's longest snake for the first time, a recent study says.

An 11-year-old reticulated python named Thelma produced six female offspring in June 2012 at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky, where she lives with another female python, Louise. No male had ever slithered anywhere near the 200-pound (91-kilogram), 20-foot-long (6 meters) mother snake.

New DNA evidence, published in July in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, revealed that Thelma is the sole parent, said Bill McMahan, the zoo's curator of ectotherms, or cold-blooded animals. (Read: "'Virgin Birth' Seen in Wild Snakes, Even When Males Are Available.")

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Yay Thelma! Awesome!!

Every year to commemorate the keepers should have a potluck and binge on a whole season of Orange Is The New Black ;) :lol:
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Kelly Mc wrote:Yay Thelma! Awesome!!

Every year to commemorate the keepers should have a potluck and binge on a whole season of Orange Is The New Black ;) :lol:
What relevance is that show to the holiday's purpose? The show should be a Nova binge or National Geographic marathon.
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Kelly Mc wrote:Yay Thelma! Awesome!!

Every year to commemorate the keepers should have a potluck and binge on a whole season of Orange Is The New Black ;) :lol:
What relevance is that show to the holiday's purpose? The show should be a Nova binge or National Geographic marathon.
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Uh.. Its a light hearted joke dery.

Lesbianica parthenogenica. :roll:
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A dude might not know that lesbians are known to like Orange is the New Black show and go to potlucks alot.
Lol!
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I like Orange is the New Black and potlucks. I wonder if I'm a lesbian :?: :roll:
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