First Christmas card of the year

I just got it in the mail today. I suppose it's technically a season's greetings card rather than a Christmas card. But guess who it's from?

That's right, our friends down at Chimp Haven. The card unfolds into a calendar, and the newsletter part is modeled after the kind I get from extended family every year. There's an update on Baby Tracy, the mystery that captured national attention earlier this year. There are cute stories about chimpanzee's favorite toys and socialization.

I have to say it was pretty cute. All my more advanced primate friends really are going to have a lot to live up to.

It's not just the chimps having unexplainable offspring...

Apparently a British zoo is celebrating what scientists are calling a virgin birth! Instead of a primate, this time it was a Komodo dragon. Zookeepers say the mother was never exposed to any male counterparts.

Weird. First it's good ole Teresa delivering little Tracy down at our very own Chimp Haven. And now there are little fatherless (literally) dragons running around their cage in northern England.

Crazy. Thanks to Anubhav Tagore, a copy editor here at The Times, for passing along the birth announcement.