Birds do it, the bees do it. Even educated fleas do so, according to Cole Porter’s classic song on the global nature of sex.
But the inherited shark, which is born in the Louisiana, which includes houses only, is that marine experts have been upset and raised the possibility that these species do not require terrestrial pleasures to produce offspring.
Yuko, the swollen shark, turns on January 3 after an egg was seen by the animal raising team in the United States eight months ago. It was possible that the eggs had not been discovered for up to two months before that, according to Shreveport Aquarium.
The team says that the sharks in the tank were not in contact with a male for more than three years. This indicates either a process called parthenogenesisA rare form of sexual reproduction, or delaying fertilization.
DNA analysis as soon as the puppy is large enough to take a blood sample, it will determine the truth about the mysterious birth, but it will take months.
“This situation is incredible and shows the elasticity of this type,” said Gregoriium’s living animal secretary. “We are very excited in the coming months to confirm whether this is already a state of obstetrics or if fertilization is delayed.”
Child shark – named after the original American Chumash people of the shark, “Oniuko– It was said that it is prosperous, although the aquarium acknowledged that the newly born shark, although these reproductive events often face great challenges. They said that if Yuko’s time is short, you will leave an “unforgettable legacy” to study the multiplication of sharks and memorization.
If Yuko has already been born by forming poisoning, it will join animals such as the star of the sea, deep marine worms and insects capable of such “virgin births”. Laying eggs without mating RareBut seen in the Zebra sharks, the saw fish and a handful of reptiles. Phenomena were first documented in Komodo Dragons, the largest reptile in the world, in 2006, After it occurred in two British zoos. Last year, Stingray Charlotte in the aquarium in North Carolina A pregnant woman was found Although there is no in contact with an eight -year male.
While scientists assume that vertebrates turn into the formation of the defect when there are no colleagues, many aspects remain unknown, including the reason for their occurrence and what it raises them.
“The comodos is famous for it,” said Kullen Stevenson, head of crocodile education in the world in Beni Norton, England, a garden of animals that include a comodo dragon from males born by a female in Prague. The genetic.
