Unusual Animal Sex(es)

My loves! Let’s talk about sex...es in the animal world. More specifically chromosomes, clones, and beyond - because nature is strange and fantastic in the best of ways and so much more complex than anything we - or at least I - learned in my early science classes. And as much as humans have historically looked to the animal kingdom to reinforce ideas of the status quo, it seems the more we learn the more these very ideas can be shaken up by the same incredible creatures and the secrets they hold.


Logo illustration is by Constance Hermit
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Theme song "Hey Dorothy" is by Cruz Machine
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Sources

• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/10/rose-breasted-grosbeak-half-male-half-female/
• https://powdermillarc.org/bird-banding-at-powdermill-avian-research-center-parc/
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-komodo-d/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/science/23shark.html#:~:text=A%20hammerhead%20shark%20that%20gave,been%20documented%20in%20a%20shark.
• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101103111210.htm
• https://listverse.com/2016/03/21/10-amazing-animals-that-clone-themselves/
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2019/10/17/meet-the-blob-a-creature-that-has-almost-720-sexes--but-no-brain/?sh=ab4439a75422

Songs, Sound Effects

• "Snake" by M.W.D.
• https://freemusicarchive.org/music/MWD/Singing_Forest/04_mwd-snake
• Dramatic 8 by digifishmusic
• https://freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/76064/