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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums!2 California condor chicks have hatched from unfertilized eggs!
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Scientists at SDZWA discovered two California condor chicks have hatched from unfertilized eggs. This sort of asexual reproduction, known as parthenogenesis, is a first for the species and provides new hope for their recovery. Read more: http://sdzwa.org/condorchicks
https://stories.sandiegozoo.org/2021/10/28/san-diego-zoo-wildlife-alliance-conservation-scientists-report-first-confirmed-hatchings-of-two-california-condor-chicks-from-unfertilized-eggs/
Tikki
(14,557 posts)If you have ever had a California Condor fly near you it is an awe inspiring event.
For a bit one flew above our car driving down the California Coast heading south from Santa Barbara.
Tikki
That's cool! go condors!
panader0
(25,816 posts)getagrip_already
(14,764 posts)Drones, or male bees, are haploid insects that only have the dna of the mother. The queen has a choice of laying a fertilized or an unfertilized egg. All drones come from unfertilized eggs.
There is one strain of bees, ivory coast bees I think, where a female can develop from an unfertilized egg.
Insects, reptiles, fish and birds all use it to a degree. Nature will find a way.
Wingus Dingus
(8,054 posts)All females.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Let's start a religion. 🕍 🦅
Javaman
(62,530 posts)EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)What if we can get his holy noodlyness to ride on the back of the sacred Condor? 😳
The sacred Condor could be the holy conveyance of the almighty FSM. He has to get around somehow, and rolling meatballs gather a lot of gunk after awhile.
We'll have to raise this question at the next Flying Spaghetti Monster delegate convention.
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)....you be in the afternoon seminar on "The Theological Implications of Parmesan and Romano Cheese Blends"? Hope to see you.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Spaghetti: Throw it at the wall, or cool and suck?
I got shut out of the very popular "Theological Implications of Parmesan and Romano Cheese Blend" seminar. Seats for that always go so quickly.
Maybe at one of the pre-registration covfefe and biscotti hours?
calimary
(81,320 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I don't care what the mother claims.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)How many immaculate conceptions do they think we'll fall for anyway?
dobleremolque
(492 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)Ok! I WAS WRONG!!!!!
hunter
(38,317 posts)Explain that to the Evangelical Christians.
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,757 posts)I for one welcome our new immaculately conceived Condor overlords.
Wingus Dingus
(8,054 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)Parthenogenesis results in chicks that are genetically identical to the parent - just like clones.