These Female Lizards Lay Eggs Without Mating | South Pacific | BBC Earth

When humans first travelled to the remote islands of the South Pacific, the mourning gecko managed to stowaway with them, and thanks to an amazing adaptation that single lizard could populate a whole new island.
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Taken from South Pacific (2009).
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Living their best eyeball licking life.

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Nature is always amazing 🎉

[@elephantofdoom]

The title is actually a little inaccurate - as these geckos are a mutation of a species that does require a mate, they won't lay eggs until they think they have mated. So the females will "mate" with each other, stimulating the need to produce eggs! People nickname them the lesbian lizards because of this.

[@delibirda9336]

That's actually cool as all hell!

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Lesbians for the win!

[@KatsyKat]

Some bee species are also all female, as well as some others. Also intruiging how no “male only” species have been found (at least yet) this could mean females are the deafult in a sense, exculding hermaphrodites and such.

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Gross

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Pretty amazing!

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This Moana sequel looks amazing!

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Moana in lizard version

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ARE THESE THE WILD COUNTERPART OF THE LESBIAN GECKO ARMY???😍

[@squawkwardscience]

So you're telling me... these geckos are basically the Christopher Columbus of the lizard world? 😂

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Don't mention that was 👹😒

[@jametalboy]

So well researched, filmed & documented that even the lizard story sounds so much interesting... Big thanks & effort by the BBC earth team

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Blue the Velociraptor: I can do the same.

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Amazing camerawork😊

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2:39 CONSIDER THE COCONUT. CONSIDER ITS TREE

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Excellent

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Wunderful video!

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Best living ever and survival ability. Its evolution

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the music is fascinating

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Very cool 👍👍👍

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Magnificent

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what is the name of background music?

Tolle naturaufnahmen. Gruss Jürgen 🤠

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É preocupante já ho clima do tempo si tratando da natureza exemplo das enchentes aqui no Brasil aonde eu moro no estado do Rio Grande do Sul 436 municípios foram devastados pelas enchentes muito triste 😢 isso 🆗️ 🇧🇷

[@rafaelsolorzano700]

How cool is that,no mating and a gecko is born.

[@xonealx918]

Right. Are there even males at that point? Or all a unisex?

[@cammynyah]

That's why we got non-binary pronouns now,

[@ethanotoroculus1060]

@@xonealx918 Not unisex, just all females. The phenomenon is called parthenogenesis, it's been observed in a number of other species and it can be either facultative or obligate (this case is the latter).

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Oh, this is from Wild Pacific.

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Very interesting

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How did they get the camera in there?

[@Planetmango48]

Wow.

[@alishademmery3581]

Absolutely gorgeous magnificent

[@IndriidaeNT]

I did know that geckoes can walk on walls with their sticky hands and that they eat their own skin after they shed it but I had no idea that they actually lay their eggs that hatch into geckos without sperm cells from males. I am learning something new every day.

[@thegameranch5935]

There are many species of geckos, there are only a few that can lay eggs without a male

[@IndriidaeNT]

@@thegameranch5935 Seahorses meanwhile are the only male animals who give birth.

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What is that song at the end ?

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I Shazamed it for you: it's called Mooki Ana Low-hey by David Mitcham. Saludos :D.

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Lisza song

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😳🦎

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🙏💚

[@ImDuDu22]

So who gives her baby?

[@robertmccreary4832]

In Hawaii geckos are considered good luck I see them everyday and inside homes !

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Pingwings!

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They are cute 🦎

[@chiboy2308]

Amazing... Maybe one day humans can recreate

[@roelin360]

Why would we want to? This is basically human cloning

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I’ve found a way

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Hm.

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​@@Yami_Kakudou You can adopt one tho?

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👁⚽️Licker

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tiny lesbian gecko army

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😃

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She doesn't need Noah's Ark, either! Truly independent woman! Men could feed dinosaur!

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Godzilla

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Note: these are not mammals. XX-XY is still a thing.

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😂

[@PozoBlue]

these geckos are also male and female but females have developed parthogenesis like other rare species, which is this ability to reproduce without a male... they create genetically identical offspring. it happens when no males are around/when the species is under pressure/danger, etc. to ensure the continuity of the species. it's bloody miraculous. still male/female and that is all there is.

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How is it possible that it evolved from sexual to asexual animals?? ​@@PozoBlue

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@@satyabansahoo1862 it's actually very easy, there isnt really anything stopping mammals from developing this system either, its just that sex-based reproduction has worked better so far

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@@CarrionQueer It's easy for asexuals.. But evolution not so easy... They would have gone extinct by now...

[@101LatinoBoy101]

😅😅😅😅😅😅 chickens lay eggs without mating, tortoises lay eggs without mating, snake do it. Yet none of them are fertilized. You need to have a species thar can carry and store sperm for the length of their life. Example, Female Bees with mate woth a male once and only once yet will have the ability to store sperm and lay fertilized eggs days, months and years later. So they might lay eggs but they arent viable. Unless these lizards can Go through metamorphosis and change its sex like some trigger fish can do or frogs do when there is to many of one sex around. 😅

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Your right

[@charmaineramsden2188]

Reproducing without needing a mate, I could do with being a Morning Gecko...🦎🤪💚🤪🦎

[@seansingh4421]

So I can raise my own Lesbian Gecko Army ?

[@marrowlim]

heck yea lesbian lizards for the win

Every creation of God has wisdom❤

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Supports the hypothesis that Adam was made out of the rib of Eve

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It was the other way around,mate.

[@timothyblackburn82]

Lizards can regrow their tails, what does THAT support? Lol. Not every little thing in existence can be used to try to justify a point of agenda

[@sleddog3092]

This has happened before and is a sign a species is dying.

[@Daniel-cg1gr]

Wrong.

[@sleddog3092]

@Daniel-cg1gr ok.... idk what to say to that... do you want me to say "no. You."? I mean... idk if you watch Clint's reptiles. Lots of people here do. He mentioned it once, and I've seen other examples. But hey, don't take the word of a guy with a PhD in evolutionary biology

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@sleddog3092 trust me, you're wrong.

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@@Daniel-cg1gr okay random guy on the internet. I'm wrong because you said so.

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Like a chicken

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Chicken eggs will not become a chick without a rooster. Eggs sold in US grocery stores are unfertilized.

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@@Lavonne9870 - Like a chicken's period waste.

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3:45 Geckos are lizards not animals.

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And Lizards are animals....

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Men need to be careful how far you push us 😂

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You are not a lizard

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@@rapidfire77you never know, she could be

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Feminist lizard emerges

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And now all feminist's will start chanting how they don't need no men 😂😂😂

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Basically Godzilla

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is this a form of virgin Mary type of scene?

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Nah. If it were, Jesus would have been a woman.

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Godzilla