Anna the anaconda got pregnant all by herself — by ‘virgin birth’

Washington Post ^ | May 24, 2019 | Katie Mettler

[EdnaMode]

How to they know the other snakes all identified as female. Maybe one identified as a male and then somehow it turned into one.....

[dp0622]

All I know is if it’s the Wa Post, they’re trying to insult some group or another that they don’t like...

[sparklite2]

Sounds like a job for Sneaky Snake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MchhtofbgJI

[Vaquero]

Yeah happens with some reptiles/amphibians etc.

With people? Only once that I know of.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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[sparklite2]

Anna in conversation with snake friends...

Sally Snake: My god, Anna. What happened to you?
Anna: Please don’t worry. I don’t think it’s mine.

[BitWielder1]

DNA tests should settle this quickly.

[Boiler Plate]

Anacondas are apparently part "Tribble"

[dp0622]

That was different :)

[livius]

Actually, reptiles and amphibians and even many fish are known for being able to do this when the “demographic winter” falls on them. That is, there’s no critter of the opposite sex around, and their bodies obviously trigger responses that probably allowed them to survive after the great extinction.

[sparklite2]

Some of ‘em even change sex.
They’re called transfish.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Dang it, Anna - when I said GFY, I didn’t realize you were such a literalist!

[rellimpank]

--in flocks of hens (chickens) one will also at least start to develop male characteristics if no rooster available--

-happened on my folks farm---

[I want the USA back]

There’s hope, feminazis! maybe you can reproduce after all without having to touch a male!

[sparklite2]

I had a flighty lesbian employee who wanted to artificially inseminate. Doubt they ever succeeded. And I hope she never goes straight and breeds. Too many crazy people around as it is.

[livius]

They do. But human beings, who are at the top of the food chain, don’t. No hermaphroditism here!

[TMN78247]

According to the famous Professional Hunter, Harry Selby, a farmer in Kenya, “- - - - kept a pair of ‘more or less tame’ female Spotted Hyenas in a cage for about 5 years.”

Much to everyone’s surprise, Mr. Selby said that BOTH females gave birth in the Spring of 1956 to healthy litters & that the litters members were all FEMALE pups. - Selby described that event, with typical British understatement, as “a great puzzlement”

Yours, TMN78247

[Clutch Martin]

I don’t know about anacondas, but female Burmese pythons can carry sperm for up to 10 years and fertilize eggs during that entire 10-year period with the sperm they are carrying from one contact.

[PrairieLady2]

Only once, and a true miracle because the child was a male.

Virgin births happen in nature, but tje offspring is always female. That’s all the mother has to offer.

[clearcarbon]

Name all the baby snakes after house democrats. Name the oldest nancy pelosi.