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鲨鱼孤雌生殖的时候就只会生下女儿，而有些雌性动物的孤雌生殖则会生出儿子。2006 年，英国一家动物园里的一只科莫多巨蜥也出现了孤雌生殖。雌性科莫多巨蜥携带 WZ 性染色体，而雄性的则是 ZZ。当发生孤雌生殖时，雌性只能产下 WW 或 ZZ 的卵，由于 WW 的卵无法存活，因此只有 ZZ 蛋能成功孵化，于是后代就都是雄性。

The discovery that condors are capable of virgin births - formally called parthenogenesis or asexual reproduction - surprised scientists. Virgin births have been recorded in other bird species ...