Zebra Shark Parthenogenesis!
- Thread starter Desert Bus
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Interesting wording... 'Fourth year in a row', almost to imply sharks only lay eggs once a year.
"Never had access to a male" also suggests she was captive bred.
These seem to be popping up more and more. Wonder if this one will actually be confirmed or shot down due to poor record keeping.
"Never had access to a male" also suggests she was captive bred.
These seem to be popping up more and more. Wonder if this one will actually be confirmed or shot down due to poor record keeping.
Offspring isn't always equally divided male/female.
The thing that makes me wonder is that Dubai is a fairly new aquarium in the grand scheme of things, so they'd be getting animals from the wild or from other places. That animal wasn't raised there, that's for sure.
it could be pathenogenesis. I know a zebra shark housed in the zoological garden in dresden(germany). She was captive bred and lived alone in her tank. She layed unfertile eggs for years. And suddenly three fertile eggs. All 3 hatchlings were females, so it was parthenogenesis for sure.