This is very interesting. This particular whiptail lizard carries 3 sets of DNA, instead of the regular 2 that the sexually reproducing species have.

This seems to be a hybrid species that resulted from the sexual reproduction of two different species many thousands years ago.

From the 3 sets of DNA, 2 are from the ancestral mother and 1 from the ancestral father, and using this trick, each generation manages to keep the whole DNA information of the original two without loosing it, like it happens in the sexual reproduction, and also provide enough genetic variation in newborns to allow evolution.

So I would say that basically, each individual is the child of that ancestral pair that generated this lineage.