Komodo any1 got?

[sean k]

didnt the female komodo at london zoo lay a fertile egg and it hatched and the female komodo had not ever been near a male????

i think thats what i heard????

correct me if im wrong...

[Kev132]

Originally Posted by sean k

didnt the female komodo at london zoo lay a fertile egg and it hatched and the female komodo had not ever been near a male????

i think thats what i heard????

correct me if im wrong...

that was the female at chester zoo, and it was a whole clutch of eggs, all fertile, and she'd never been with a male.

Chester did a really godo job with theirs, i believe they kept them in seperate huge enclosures for about 2-3 years before introducing them, parts of the enclosure where right next to eachother, and where screened off so they could sense each other, the year following the female laying the fertile eggs, they introduced her to the male and they mated, not sure if theyve kept them together though...

[reck118]

Bump

[God-Comes]

Originally Posted by sean k

didnt the female komodo at london zoo lay a fertile egg and it hatched and the female komodo had not ever been near a male????

i think thats what i heard????

correct me if im wrong...

thats rely weird lol

[reck118]

Yeah it is. suprisingly common though. Quite a few common slug and snail species are capable of it. Aswell as loads of lizards and countless other animals

[jc_reptiles]

I was inside Londons Komodo dome last year. One side is occupied by tortoises so it was all good

Wish I had taken some pictures now. It was so hot in there though, I was sweeting like a newly divorced herper at Hamm.

I have seen chesters off show housing too, massive amount of space for mini dragons, but great to see.

[Lamprophis]

Originally Posted by sean k

didnt the female komodo at london zoo lay a fertile egg and it hatched and the female komodo had not ever been near a male????

i think thats what i heard????

correct me if im wrong...

didn't a certain biblical character make this claim also?

[The_Real_Moreliaman]

Originally Posted by Lamprophis

didn't a certain biblical character make this claim also?

In the quiet words of the virgin mary.......come again ??......;-)


Both london and chester had komodos lay without mating, infact if i remember correctly the female at london zoo laid a clutch of 22 eggs before the female at chester zoo laid 25......... i remember chattin to douglas at chester about their parthenogenetic behaviour, very weird.

[The_Real_Moreliaman]

Originally Posted by reck118

Yeah it is. suprisingly common though. Quite a few common slug and snail species are capable of it. Aswell as loads of lizards and countless other animals

I dont think theres that many lizards that can....i know theres about 15 species of lizards in mexico that never produce males ! with females acting out courtship dances with eachother.........i know greenfly & black fly are parthenogenetic.....like you say its more common than people think.

[The_Real_Moreliaman]

Originally Posted by reck118

Yeah it is. suprisingly common though. Quite a few common slug and snail species are capable of it. Aswell as loads of lizards and countless other animals

No sorry m8...you are kinda right...there aint loads but theres quite a few i just checked.........whiptails, geckos, rock lizards, blindsnakes and Komodo dragons. I think the whiptails are the mexican specie that dont produce any males.

(i dunno if the links on them will work but it should go to a wiki page)