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 Pretty interesting stuff

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for the lazy ones it says bassically females dont need males to breed they can make there own eggs if they have 2 the babies are always male however so the female can breed with them
12/15/07  12:22pm

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   Message To: Chezequerz   In reference to Message Id: 1547340


 Pretty interesting stuff

You know, with all the stuff the species can do, it’s kind of surprising they haven’t proven more successful.
12/29/07  02:40am

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 Pretty interesting stuff

Figures. If it’s not about having one as a pet, whether or not they’re venomous, or the nutritional value of litttle old ladies, nobody ever responds to these threads. It’s an interesting adaptation, though. Not only can the female breed with her own parthenogenetic offspring, which isn’t ideal but better than simply dying out, but her offspring can also allow her to breed, albeit by proxy, with other females.
Let’s say Kathy Komodo arrives on an island with no other dragons. She lays eggs anyway. Her sons can breed with any female that arrives after her, or they can swim off into new territory and breed with the females there. Even with no inbreeding whatsoever, her DNA lives on.
I just find it strange because they’ve never really had that large a range. I wonder if it was a feature that earlier monitors had, that just happens to occasionally pop up, like humans born with tails or chickens born with teeth. Does aybody know anything about the chromosome structure of other monitor species?
12/31/07  01:34am


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