Submitted by TheBloxyBloxGuy t3_11mdtz4 in askscience
Nvenom8 t1_jbi39xc wrote
There are some unisexual salamanders that can be triploid or even pentaploid, and it doesn't really affect their fertility because they are all female and reproduce by mating with males of closely-related species.
Leni_licious t1_jbj1kqg wrote
This is how I now imagine Amazon women because I don't have to worry about them killing off male babies
Tus3 t1_jby2atr wrote
Or virgin births. There exist all-female lizard species whose children are clones of their mothers. Like these ones: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_whiptail
dark_frog t1_jbjc7rs wrote
But do any have an odd number of chromosomes?
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