Condor Females Don’t Need a Male to Hatch Chicks

For the first time, researchers have observed two cases of asexual reproduction in condors. And it also turns out that whales are much hungrier than we thought.Hosted by: Hank GreenSciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ----------Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow----------Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:Alisa Sherbow, Silas Emrys, Chris Peters, Adam Brainard, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Melida Williams, Jeremy Mysliwiec, charles george, Tom Mosner, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Piya Shedden, GrowingViolet, Nazara, Matt Curls, Ash, Eric Jensen, Jason A Saslow, Kevin Bealer, Sam Lutfi, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Bryan Cloer, Jeffrey Mckishen----------Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.orgFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishowTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishowInstagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow----------Sources:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elizabeth-Thompson-13/publication/254907851_Analysis_of_Relatedness_in_the_California_Condors_from_DNA_Fingerprints_1/links/0f31753b37e66d37cc000000/Analysis-of-Relatedness-in-the-California-Condors-from-DNA-Fingerprints-1.pdfhttps://academic.oup.com/jhered/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jhered/esab052/6412509https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/parthenogenesishttps://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7007-8-101https://www.nature.com/articles/hdy201257https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497136/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00071666508415546https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aja.1000330104https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5656917/http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.619.8903&rep=rep1&type=pdfhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19276631/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2391206/https://stories.sandiegozoo.org/2021/10/28/san-diego-zoo-wildlife-alliance-conservation-scientists-report-first-confirmed-hatchings-of-two-california-condor-chicks-from-unfertilized-eggs/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304380015004652https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03991-5 https://press.springernature.com/baleen-whale-prey-consumption-based-on-high-resolution-foraging-/19726018 Images:https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/california-condor-gm499264973-42520806https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/california-condor-gm153586890-16834915https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/california-condor-gymnogyps-californianus-gm169975455-24852331https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bdelloid_Rotifer.jpghttps://www.istockphoto.com/photo/komodo-dragon-gm93173130-4113701https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/condor-pair-gm1072281610-286952455https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gymnogyps_californianus_-near_Hopper_Mountain_National_Wildlife_Refuge,_California,_USA_-adult_and_chick-8_(1).jpghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_condor_family_(19940221508).jpghttps://www.istockphoto.com/photo/california-condor-poses-gm178497886-21308173https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/condor-gm495123612-77832123https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/california-condors-gm468595354-61107238https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/humpback-whales-feeding-megaptera-novaeangliae-in-chatham-strait-alaska-mouth-open-gm1290173534-385638777https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blue-whales-sri-lanka-april-2012-gm637250780-113569449https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/bubble-net-feeding-humpback-whales-in-the-waters-of-bristish-columbia-canada-gm1218298321-355944466https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Humpback_whale_baleen.jpghttps://www.istockphoto.com/photo/krill-drifting-underwater-in-the-st-lawrence-estuary-in-canada-gm1069237662-286021351https://www.flickr.com/photos/cmichel67/47539894201https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/whale-tail-gm497103259-41660586https://www.flickr.com/photos/noaaphotolib/9787178253https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/humpback-whale-feeding-gm941491408-257329948