Speaking of babies daddy???
Crazy enough that multiple males can sire the same clutch. Has there been any cases were multiple males sire a single baby? Say a male Pastel and a male Spider bred to a normal female. Has this every produced Bumble bees?
Re: Speaking of babies daddy???
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Crazy enough that multiple males can sire the same clutch. Has there been any cases were multiple males sire a single baby? Say a male Pastel and a male Spider bred to a normal female. Has this every produced Bumble bees?
Nah not crazy! Every species that has fraternal litters (i.e. siblings from the same litter but not from the same egg) can have multiple sires involved even people :) BUT only one sperm can enter an egg; all others are banished in all of chordata I believe. What I think is great is fraternal twins (or more) inside a single egg shell. Meaning multiple babies with multiple yolks. Most seem to think that the male determines all twins but it is indeed the female which determines fraternal twins. Female releases eggs; not male. It is the single egg which splits incorrectly and develops into two or more identical fetuses all share the same yolk where it could be a male genetic error as well as the females. I am not 100% sure about fraternal twins in reptiles but since the female develops the shell it would seem that she would also be responsible for this type of twin as well. HMMMMMM.......very interesting. Twins or other reproductive oddity in any species can be related to hormonal imbalance perhaps due to some environmental condition (i.e. contaminated food or water perhaps). There are sharks in Florida that are being severely affected by birth control remnants deposited into the rivers. Just something to think about.
Okay I am done now :)
