life will find a way
How does a whiptail lizard have sex?
Trick question!
There are no males
all whiptail lizards are females
so they can’t have sex at all.
Wait a minute
so how do they reproduce?
By cloning themselves:
In the bizarre life of a whiptail lizard,
reproduction is preceeded by pseudocopulation,
where two females act out the roles of a male mounting a female
(they switch roles later on).
Apparently,
this is required to stimulate egg production in both lizards.
When the eggs hatch,
they will be all-female clones of the mother lizard.
WHAT??
30 strangest animal mating rituals
Trick question!
There are no males
all whiptail lizards are females
so they can’t have sex at all.
Wait a minute
so how do they reproduce?
By cloning themselves:
In the bizarre life of a whiptail lizard,
reproduction is preceeded by pseudocopulation,
where two females act out the roles of a male mounting a female
(they switch roles later on).
Apparently,
this is required to stimulate egg production in both lizards.
When the eggs hatch,
they will be all-female clones of the mother lizard.
WHAT??
30 strangest animal mating rituals