• Cap@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    This must be a devil bird! No God would create something that isn’t either a male or female! No in betweens! /s

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        11 months ago

        Exactly! Next thing you know someone is gonna say it’s sexuality is fluid. Think of the children!

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        11 months ago

        Ooh, look at me! I’m making people happy! I’m the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane!

        Oh by the way I was being sarcastic

        Homer Simpson

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      11 months ago

      The article mentions double fertilisation, so I guess it’s hermaphroditic?

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      11 months ago

      If it’s like the chicken I read about previously, it’s literally half one, half the other, as if you split two birds in half lengthwise and mixed up the pairing when you put them back together.

  • rosymind@leminal.space
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    11 months ago

    Excerpt:

    Professor Spencer says gynandromorphs – animals with both male and female characteristics in a species that usually have separate sexes – are important for our understanding of sex determination and sexual behaviour in birds.

    The main groups in which the phenomenon has been recorded include animal species which feature strong sexual dimorphism; most often insects, especially butterflies, crustaceans, spiders, even lizards and rodents.

    “This particular example of bilateral gynandromorphy – male one side and female the other – shows that, as in several other species, either side of the bird can be male or female.

    “The phenomenon arises from an error during female cell division to produce an egg, followed by double-fertilization by two sperm,” he explains.