Anna The Anaconda Got Pregnant All By Herself — By ‘Virgin Birth’
If left to freely breed, green anaconda like Anna can have dozens of babies at a time, which is precisely why staffers at this Boston aquarium had taken great care to keep male and female snakes in separate tanks. Young anaconda snakes born by parthenogenesis hang out together in a behind-the-scenes holding area at the New England Aquarium in Boston. (New England Aquarium)
On Thursday, when the aquarium presented Anna’s mystery to the world, staff said they had been holding the two babies “every day of their short lives” to condition them for regular handling by humans.
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