#blindsnake

Desert Blindsnake or Desert Threadsnake (Rena humilis cahuilae), Leptotyphlopidae, San Diego County, CA, USA

Acontias plumbeus, giant legless skink.

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“Being gay is unnatural because a female can’t reproduce with another female!”

Unnatural

1. Contrary to the ordinary course of nature; abnormal. 2.  Not existing in nature; artificial.

My dude, there’s an entire GENUS of whiptail lizards alone (Aspidoscelis) in which girl lizards can have babies without any guy getting involved.

In fact, 15 of the 47 species in the genus are comprised entirely of lady lizards. 

No bros whatsoever to be found in any of those 15 species. 

As Katherine Harmon so eloquently said in the opening lines of a 2010 Scientific American article, “some species of whiptail lizards need a male even less than a fish needs a bicycle”.

And those are not the only examples of female-only species either. 

About 70 other fish, reptile, arachnid, and bird species also reproduce by parthenogenesis.

Examples of ladies-only species:

Triaeris stenaspis (a species of goblin spider)

Are believed to be a female-only species, as no males specimen have ever been found and scientists have demonstrated that the species is indeed able to reproduce parthenogenetically.

The mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris)

Indo-Pacific house gecko (Hemidactylus garnotii)

^ Image by William Flaxington

^ Image by Sean McCann

(different looks are different subspecies)

Brahminy blindsnake (Indotyphlops braminus)

Nature is a helluva lot more inventive (and weird af) than anyone gives it credit for.

Or, as Dr. Malcom would put it...