Parthenogenesis at the Chattanooga Zoo
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This is really cool.
The only two adult female Komodo dragons in Europe as of 2006 were in the UK. Both of which had laid without a male partner that year.
Flora, in Chester Zoo had never been kept with a male and laid in 2006 a clutch of 11 eggs.
She had been with the zoo since 1999 and sadly passed in 2013.
Sungai, from London Zoo hadn’t mated in 2½ years, yet laid 22 eggs the same year.
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