What animals can change their sex (photos)
Hermaphroditism is a common phenomenon in nature. Here are some of the most interesting manifestations of it.
Clown fish
Bright fish amphiprion, recognizable thanks to the cartoon “finding Nemo”, by nature hermaphrodite. All the young males, but for the life of fish changes sex.
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The clown fish lives in the group where only two individuals are sexually Mature adult male and female. The rest — small, not pubescent males. If a female for some reason dies, the male turns into a female and chooses a new partner-male among the group members.
Rhinomuraena
Unusual fish of the family marinovich lives in the Pacific and Indian oceans. As clown fish, with age, rhinomuraena males can turn into females. They change their color. Males have a dominant blue color and females are yellow.
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Land snails Ariolimax have a bright yellow color, but sometimes there are slugs green, brown and white. They can reach a length of 25 cm It is one of the largest snails in the world.
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Ariolimax — hermaphrodites, who use their male and female reproductive organs at the same time. They are even able to be pregnant, but still prefer to find a partner. The pair lays eggs at the same time.
Butterfly
Butterflies often seen gynandromorphous — anomaly of development in which one organism large areas of the body have the genotype and characteristics of different sexes. This is the result of inappropriate distribution of sex chromosomes in cells disrupted in the course of oocyte maturation, fertilization or crushing. For example, in butterflies one half of the body can have a typical color females and the other male.
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Bilateral gynandromorphous sometimes manifests itself in birds-cardinals: brown-grey “female” feathers are juxtaposed with bright-red “male”. Such birds usually do not sing and do not create a couple, but the brothers do not offend them.
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