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[โ€“] Poogona@hexbear.net 19 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I talked with a researcher who bluntly called whiptails "a bunch of lesbos" and he wasn't even being funny, they still sorta kinda have sex to stimulate egg production.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8556411/

That study has a great diagram:

Observe the science man presiding over the lizards and their inscrutable hormones

[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

That pretty accurately describes my experience with progesterone, yeah.