Re: parthenogenetically derived reptile offspring

["franklin e. bliss" <frank@blissnet.com>]

Birds have a different way of making it happen and it isn't quite  
"mounting". They just sort of touch cloacas.  Unlike male snakes and  
lizards which have two, male crocs which have one, male birds have no  
external apparatus to couple with so there really isn't a classic  
mounting so to speak.  (red faced and somewhat flushed).  While  
someone brought it up, (stop it!) anyone know how dinosaurs fit into  
this numbers game???

Go to the website http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi? 
cmd=Search&db=PubMed&term=parthenogenesis+in 
+turkey&tool=QuerySuggestion   for a list of 23 citations on turkey  
asexual reproduction.

Frank (Rooster) (not turkey) Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoming
www.wyomingdinosaurs.com


On Dec 23, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Ian Paulsen wrote:

> HI:
>  I haven't heard of this before, do you have a source on this? I  
> know that
> domestic turkeys for the most part are artificially inseminated  
> because
> the toms are bred to be large, too large to mount the hens. Now  
> that's a
> weight problem, when you are too large to have sex!
>
> --
>
> Ian Paulsen
> Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
> A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
> "Rallidae all the way!"