Virgin Lizard Momma update!
Remember my post last month about Flora, the komodo dragon in England who was reproducing without a male counterpart?
Well, as of last Wednesday, 5 of her 7 eggs have hatched. (one of the cutie lizard babies is pictured below.)
“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.
“When the first of the babies hatched, we didn’t know whether to make her a cup of tea or pass her the cigars.”
Read the complete story here, at cnn.com.