This story is a bit old, but I'm reading it again in my Zoo Animals book for my captive management class.
http://www.livescience.com/9460-female-komodo-dragon-virgin-births.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7122/abs/4441021a.html
The top link is a news story about the Komodo dragons living in the Chester Zoo and how the female gave virgin births. Without zoos this data would not have been discovered! How did she have virgin births you ask? Researchers figured out that Komodo dragons can reproduce asexually as well as sexually! Very interesting.
[Hosey, G. et all (2009). Zoo Animals. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford]
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