The North Carolina aquarium where Charlotte the virgin stingray lives has announced that she and her babies are healthy, amid weeks of speculation from the public that something's amiss.
Phew. Charlotte the virgin stingray's babies are OK and she is still on track to give birth any moment.The Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO posted on Facebook and Instagram that the stingray and her pups are in good health after getting results from the latest ultrasound.
Charlotte became the center of a media frenzy back in February when Team ECCO announced she was pregnant - despite not living around any male stingrays. Some experts have expressed frustration that Team ECCO has refused input from other aquarium professionals. And some members of the general public have grown conspiratorial, speculating that the animal is being mistreated and that officials at the aquarium are lying about her status.In a video posted to Team ECCO's Facebook page, Charlotte is shown being fed by a diver at the aquarium. The aquarium's staff assured the public that she and the developing babies are healthy.
'Parthenogenesis' is the term for an animal essentially impregnating herself - using her own eggs to create a genetically complete clone in the absence of males of her species.
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