{"id":126939,"date":"2021-08-30T05:24:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T12:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/a-baby-shark-born-in-all-female-tank-could-be-a-rare-case-of-a-virgin-birth"},"modified":"2021-08-30T05:24:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T12:24:35","slug":"a-baby-shark-born-in-all-female-tank-could-be-a-rare-case-of-a-virgin-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/a-baby-shark-born-in-all-female-tank-could-be-a-rare-case-of-a-virgin-birth","title":{"rendered":"A baby shark born in all-female tank could be a rare case of a \u2018virgin birth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-baby-shark-born-in-all-female-tank-could-be-a-rare-case-of-a-virgin-birth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists say a rare shark \u201cvirgin birth\u201d may be the first of its kind after a baby shark was born in an all-female tank in an Italian aquarium.<\/p>\n<p>The baby smoothhound shark, named Ispera, which means hope in Sardianian, was born at the Acquario di Cala Gonone in Sardinia, Italy, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agi.it\/cronaca\/news\/2021-08-14\/nasce-squalo-in-acquario-cala-gonne-si-pensa-a-partenogenesi-13580111\/\">Italian outlet AGI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its mother had spent ten years living in a tank with one other female, the outlet said, and scientists suspect the newborn could be the first documented case of shark parthenogenesis in that species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say a rare shark \u201cvirgin birth\u201d may be the first of its kind after a baby shark was born in an all-female tank in an Italian aquarium. The baby smoothhound shark, named Ispera, which means hope in Sardianian, was born at the Acquario di Cala Gonone in Sardinia, Italy, according to Italian outlet AGI. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}