SKIRMISHER

An 8-year-old Komodo dragon named Flora recently shocked the Chester Zoo staff in northern England when out of thin air and without a strapping male partner, it suddenly became pregnant. Now she’s the proud mother of five little dragons who are now all confused as to what they’re supposed to call her, which is the same dilemma kids with gay parents have.

“Flora is oblivious to the excitement she has caused but we are delighted to say she is now a mum and dad,” said a delighted Kevin Buley, the zoo’s curator of lower vertebrates and invertebrates.

The shells began cracking last week, after an eight-month gestation period, which culminated with the arrival on Tuesday of the fifth black and yellow colored dragon.

The dragons are between 15.5 and 17.5 inches and weigh between 3.5 and 5.3 ounces, said Buley, who leads the zoo’s expert care team.

He said the reptiles are in good health and enjoying a diet of crickets and locusts.

Some reptile species reproduce without the opposite sex (asexually) in a process known as parthenogenesis. It fully explains the apparent lack of singles bars and online dating services for reptiles. In the human species, the only one who pulled off such a feat is someone whose name I don’t even have to mention.

via DISCOVERY

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