• Question: how do animals fertilise?

    Asked by priyanka1998pj to Alex, Jools, Matt, Rika on 24 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Alex Davenport

      Alex Davenport answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      most of them have sex. Pure and simple. However for cattle and other live stock we artificially inseminate them. That way we can control (mostley) what the offspring will be like 🙂

    • Photo: Chandrika Nair

      Chandrika Nair answered on 24 Jun 2011:

      some lizards (like komodo dragons!) are able to do a think called parthenogenesis as well, where they basically make another lizard without the need of a mate! (only female lizards do this, when there aren’t enough males in the environment).

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