Strange reproductive practices of lizards

Whiptail is a long-tailed lizard that lives in South America and Mexico. For those who whiptail, finding a partner is considered impossible, even if they have all the necessary features and skills.

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The reason is that the number of males in the world of whiptai lizards is extremely small if not almost completely disappeared.

Long tail lizard whiptail.(Source: Alamy)

However, it is not important to find a partner for them because they can rely on themselves, even in the process of reproduction.

Females easily increase the amount of testosterone in the body, mimicking the behavior of males to stimulate fertility in another female; After that, the children fertilized the eggs themselves.

With single fertility, they can create their own copy. Build your own nest, lay your own eggs and eggs will hatch after 2-3 months. The females recreated in this way have for a long time and until now, the number of male lizard whiptai is almost wiped out.

In the future, with the "rush" development of science and technology, the cloning process on humans can also become so easy. However, according to many experts, unlike animals, people have a lot of pressure from social and biological relationships. Therefore, learning whiptail species may not be popular.

According to: Guardian