I talked with a resaearcher 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.

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

That study has a great diagram: Image

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