Know how the female snake can give birth to a child without the help of a man?

in #animals8 years ago

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Tell you that a female water snake in Missouri can do something that no human can do, no matter how much they try. Actually, she can produce children without the help of a man. Yes, this is the truth, in the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), a yellow-belly water snake gave rise to a baby snake, but it has not made any connection with a mail snake since the last eight years.

This is the second consecutive year when the snake has given Virgin Berth in such a way, but tell that the berthing process is not as miraculous as it seems. Explain that these water snakes with yellow belly are among the species of reptiles that can reproduce through a process known as parthenogenesis. According to the researchers, this strange method of reproduction works differently in different species.

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Generally, parthenogenesis is a type of asexual reproduction, in which the baby is produced by the female without the genetic contribution of the breed with the mail. Several snake species are known to reproduce in such a way that include timber rattlesnakes, copperheads, cattamouth, Burmese pythons, common boas, green anaconda and pit viper. However, parthenogenesis is also quite common in the world of pesticides.

At the same time, some species of fish, amphibians and birds are capable of giving birth to children through partial origin, but mammals can not do this. Now the question is why why so many female animals do such mating-free reproduction? Evolutionary and populist geneticist Warren Booth at North Carolina State University says that this is the reason why they can not find suitable men for reproduction.

Booth and his colleagues have studied snake's parthenogenesis for many years and found that female snakes can resort to asexual reproduction as a way to preserve their limited supply of eggs. In other words, if they are unable to find someone to fertilize their eggs, instead of letting their eggs be wasted, they take things in their hands

Now you will think how women can fertilize their own eggs? So let us know that the researchers believe that the women who make up the relationship before reaching the sexual maturity, they keep some sperm stars from those men, again, when they mature enough to do reproduction, So they use that sperm. But is not the use of old sperms similar to partial degeneration?

Although it is not yet clear whether a serpent with a yellow oxygen of MDC gave birth to a baby without a snake. It may be possible that he has kept the sperm for eight years and used them now. If this has happened, then it is a new record in you, because the time has been for most of the time to keep the time to store the sperm.

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Thank you for sharing,

Nice post sir....your every posts are intersting

Really interesting. If wonder if this sperm storage thing is right :)

amazing pictures.