Hendersonville, N.C. — A North Carolina aquarium that said it had a pregnant stingray with no male companion now says the fish has a uncommon reproductive illness.
Thursday’s assertion from the Aquarium and Shark Lab in Hendersonville didn’t say what illness the stingray, Charlotte, has or touch upon the standing of her being pregnant. The aquarium didn’t instantly reply to an e mail from The Related Press searching for extra data.
“Charlotte has developed a uncommon reproductive illness that has negatively impacted her reproductive system,” the aquarium stated. “The findings are really a tragic and surprising medical growth. Our precedence is to concentrate on Charlotte’s well being and properly being.”
The aquarium within the Blue Ridge Mountains had introduced Charlotte’s being pregnant in February, stating that she hadn’t shared a tank with a male of her species in at the very least eight years. The aquarium stated on the time that she was pregnant with as many as 4 pups and will give delivery inside two weeks.
The being pregnant was regarded as the results of a kind of asexual replica referred to as parthenogenesis, wherein offspring develop from unfertilized eggs, which means there isn’t a genetic contribution by a male. The principally uncommon phenomenon can happen in some bugs, fish, amphibians, birds and reptiles, however not in mammals. Documented examples have included California condors, Komodo dragons and yellow-bellied water snakes.
