{"id":176299,"date":"2023-11-19T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/no-daddy-shark-in-sight-zoo-greets-a-cute-shark-pup-after-apparent-parthenogenesis"},"modified":"2023-11-19T11:31:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T17:31:03","slug":"no-daddy-shark-in-sight-zoo-greets-a-cute-shark-pup-after-apparent-parthenogenesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/no-daddy-shark-in-sight-zoo-greets-a-cute-shark-pup-after-apparent-parthenogenesis","title":{"rendered":"No Daddy Shark in sight: Zoo greets a cute shark pup after apparent parthenogenesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ndbw7SQMCcQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Baby shark Jesus is born yet again <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What if the song \u201cBaby Shark\u201d stopped after just two stanzas?<\/p>\n<p>For non-fans of the catchy tune, that might sound like a dream. For a real-life Mommy Shark in Illinois, it\u2019s reality: She produced a baby without a Daddy Shark.<\/p>\n<p>The epaulette shark pup hatched this summer at Brookfield Zoo, just west of Chicago. Its mother has been at the zoo since 2019; in that time, she\u2019s never shared a tank with a male.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby shark Jesus is born yet again face_with_colon_three What if the song \u201cBaby Shark\u201d stopped after just two stanzas? For non-fans of the catchy tune, that might sound like a dream. For a real-life Mommy Shark in Illinois, it\u2019s reality: She produced a baby without a Daddy Shark. The epaulette shark pup hatched this summer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176299","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176301,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176299\/revisions\/176301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}