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ElwoodBlues · M
Some birds can change sex under extraordinary conditions.
Last year, I was surprised to find my female mandarin duck was turning into a male. Even as a zoology graduate and someone who has kept birds in an aviary since I was 10 years old, I had absolutely no idea this could happen, so I started investigating, and it turns out that the way birds express their sex is a fiendishly complex affair.
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In one exceptional case, a female-to-male convert - that happened to be a chicken - fathered two chicks. So it's possible for female to male sex changing birds to occur entirely naturally, and become fully reproductively active as a male.
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In one exceptional case, a female-to-male convert - that happened to be a chicken - fathered two chicks. So it's possible for female to male sex changing birds to occur entirely naturally, and become fully reproductively active as a male.
