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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and with Her with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: Hey a little bit of a concern here, and I

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Speaker 1: can only imagine this was written. This article was written

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Speaker 1: by a female because she starts off by saying, maybe

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Speaker 1: this is too good to be true, but the act

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Speaker 1: of a virgin birth where a male is not involved

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Speaker 1: in the pregnancy f It's has been recognized that a

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Speaker 1: zoo in Birmingham, a lizard has become pregnant and given

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Speaker 1: birth to eight hatchlings despite never being in contact with

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Speaker 1: a male.

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Speaker 2: Not not the lizard from the Sydney Swans. It isn't

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Speaker 2: Nick Blakey.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's Blaky. I don't think it's him

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Speaker 1: because he is a male.

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Speaker 2: That's the lizard, great player. He's not aundas he's just.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't drinking, that's for sure, because he was pregnant.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. So it goes on to say that

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Speaker 1: animals such as sharks, snakes, crocodiles, scorpions and wasps. So

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Speaker 1: we all go, okay, you got to sort of bugs

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Speaker 1: and stuff there. Oh, you've got a couple of uglies.

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Speaker 1: Then it goes on to say it has also occurred

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Speaker 1: in mammals virgin births where the male has not been involved. Well, now,

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Speaker 1: this is a nasty thing to think of, because I

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Speaker 1: tell you what if we're not involved in making babies

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Speaker 1: and I ain't sure what we're doing here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. What's the role of the male lizard

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Speaker 2: if they don't need to impregnate the female?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. He just sits in the corner, I

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Speaker 1: assume in a massage chair, having a Bacardi breezer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it goes on here and says this can happen when

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Speaker 1: it has happened in mammals, which we are. It happens

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Speaker 1: when a female has been isolated for a long time

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Speaker 1: and has the hope of finding a male. Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying that Kate Richie is going to turn up

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Speaker 1: at seven o'clock and tell us she's pregnant without a male.

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Speaker 1: But look, it's a long shot. It's a long shot.

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Speaker 1: She likes a bit of time to work herself. There

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Speaker 1: could be a pun in the oven. Will Kate Richie

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Speaker 1: announced the pregnancy without a man today on the same

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