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An "Odd Duck" Northern Cardinal
Unread 12-02-2019, 02:59 PM   #1
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Default An "Odd Duck" Northern Cardinal

Here's one for the birds, I came across this on another site and thought some here may find it of interest -- a Northern Cardinal that shows both male and female characteristics, it's termed a "Bilateral Gynandromorph", which is reported to be a very rare occurrence in birds, butterflies, moths and other insects. This Northern Cardinal was captured in Texas and is said to have both male and female reproductive organs.
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Wow - a true freak of nature! Amazing!





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Can use either restroom. How my St. Louis Cardinals played against the Nats.
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Had my first "Gender Neutral" restroom experience this past Sunday at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore after riding "The Polar Express" with the grandkids - COZY!!!
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Seeing a late teen honey facing the urinal with skirt hiked up and panties around her ankles is an "experience" for most of us. Kevin, however.....
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He needs to stay out of the Ladies room....





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The individual restrooms, while all marked "Gender Neutral", were very discreetly designated as "stalls only" or "urinals available."
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This one doesn’t lend itself quite so much to double entendre – but I’m sure we’ll find a way.

The case with the illustrated Striped Bass is not one of vacillating between the male and female sex. Rather, the change in appearance is attributed to the fish adapting its coloration to its environment, to be more camouflaged.

The light green morph blends the fish more with the sandy bottom of the waters on the South side of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The dark color matches more the rocky, kelp and mussel bed-bestrewn bottom of the Cuttyhunk and Vineyard Sound areas, just a few miles West of the sandy South-side.

This Bass was caught at Devil’s Bridge, a boulder-riddled underwater projection off of Gay Head on Martha’s Vineyard, which location is at the nexus of the two diverging and contrasting bottom habitats. This Striper apparently was “transitioning” from one type of camouflage to another, and caught in the act.

I asked a marine biologist if they do this automatically or if the fish motivate the color-change. He leaned more to believing that it was motivated. But, as far as I know, it is still a scientific mystery.
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The one which amazes me is the snook, which starts out as a male, and after one or two mating sessions morphs into a female and lives out the rest of his/her life a female. Any really big snook you catch are females
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