In a discovery that should scare every man alive, one species of ant were able to rid themselves completely of their male counterparts. The South American Mycocepurus smithii ant reproduces by cloning the queen, and only female specimens of the species have ever been found.
The main benefit to asexual reproduction? It removes the stress of finding a mate! I bet some of you guys wouldn't mind doing the same… except the opposite, you know what I'm saying right?
– Andy
Photo Credit: Telegraph.co.uk
cloning isn’t playing God, it’s playing Ant!
lol @ tom
This isn’t too big of news… there are many species with only females. One lizard contains only females of the species and when they need to reproduce you get female on female action, where one female pretends she has a penis and mounts the other female (hmmm sounds a lot like all the lesbians I know). They clone themselves and all look exactly alike (once again, sounds a lot like lesbians). And lets not get into the transgendered fish and amphibians that switch sex at a whim… now that’s a story of gender confusion.
Parthenogenesis is a well-documented phenomenon, nothing new.
And parthenogenesis is not lesbian lizards. It’s when reproduction is felt necessary and there is a shortage of males in the area. It’s done when needed and produces the “clone” of the female and has many traces previous lineages. The females don’t pretend to have a penis.
cloning myself so i can be my own sex object would be okay, but my type isn’t me, though i’d do me if i was in bed with myself, i just wouldn’t necessarily pursue myself unless i was really obviouslly hitting onmyself and wanted sex bad and i wasnted sex enough to give into my desires and let me do whatever i want to do to myself.