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What animal can change their gender?
fish do, more often than you think!
many fish are capable of sex changes, though whether it’s male-to-female, female-to-male or bidirectional depends on the species.
these sex changes come in two major flavors though- changes that are induced by external factors, or changes that happen naturally at a set point in an animal’s lifecycle.
in the first group, for example, we have the clownfish!
clownfish live in family groups with one large female and multiple smaller attendant males. but if the female dies, one of the males will step in, bulk up, and transition from male to female! (so basically, Finding Nemo should have gone WAY differently)
and in the other camp, we can look at the sheepshead wrasse- a large ocean fish where dominant males duel each other to control access to a large population of breeding females!
except that when a female sheepshead wrasse reaches a certain age, she goes through some major life changes- by growing a fuCKING ENORMOUS CHIN and transitioning from female to male!
and really, that’s just the tip of the iceberg! animals are basically doing weird sex bullshit every single second of every single day, these are just the easiest examples I could come up with.
Come lay with me in a bed of moss. The butterflies will trickle from our mouths as we speak. Rainwater will fill the pits in our stomachs, we can dive into them another time. Our heads will fall from the clouds and land in eachothers laps. We can watch the saplings grow for a while. We’ll go home once my antlers have grown back, that way i wont forget this time.
would you just fucking look at him.
Sea otters and giant river otters are like if someone got two artists to design a giant otter, but ended up with two very different ideas on what they should look like cause one draws hello kitty fanart and the other was a nihilist.
oh to be in a forest while it's raining <3 🌲🌿🌧🍄
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i got excellent books for the holiday! 📚 🍄
This is Kroshik, the little seal who rescuers tried to rehabilitate twice but he just didn’t want to be, and far preferred the company of humans. He has found a forever home among us, now that his rescuers have finally accepted this is what he needs. Here he is blowing bubbles to catch them in his mouth, silly baby!