Last week, Flora Avian, lead researcher for the San Diego Zoo Alliance’s California Condor Preservation Project, announced that two of the birds in her care had been spawned via parthenogenesis, that is, asexually. “We did …
November 5, 2021
“Most California condors find members of their own species too intolerably ugly to consider as potential mates,” says Avian, “so this is really good news for them. And maybe for us as well. We can’t all be Instagrammable, after all.”
Posted November 5, 2021
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San Diego Zoo Wildlife alliance reports that California condors can reproduce without sex