Les jeunes et la sexualité. Sexualité : comment informer en milieu scolaire ? Comment les jeunes parlent-ils de leur sexualité ? La reproduction humaine. Le miracle de l'amour. Aux phobiques du « genre » : voici ce qui se passe dans ma classe. THIS makes sense. Earth - Spectacular real virgin births. Thelma the snake confused then astounded her keepers. This 6m long (20 ft) python had spent four years alone in Louisville zoo in the US, without ever having met a male of her species. But, somehow, she laid over 61 eggs, producing six healthy babies. Perhaps she’d managed to secretively mate with a male many years before, and store his sperm all this time? Genetic tests soon revealed the answer. Thelma had become the first reticulated python in the world known to have had a real-life virgin birth. She’d made eggs that contained all the genetic information required to make a daughter; without the need for a father, his sperm or DNA.
Extreme reproduction? Though special, we now know that Thelma and her daughters are far from unique. Scientists are discovering that virgin births occur in many different species; amphibians, reptiles, cartilaginous and bony fish and birds and it happens for reasons we don't quite understand. Not necessarily. And other uncertainties remain. Virgin turkeys. Pubertet (6:8): Jentetiss og mensen // Puberty: Vagina and menstruation.