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Many insects can be either sex, and apparently the DNA for sex is indeterminate in them. sometimes they start out in the adult form as one sex and are fertile in that sex and then change sex later. Fish are well known to do the same thing, often starting out female, and then changing to males later, depending on things like number of males around, and the PH of the water. Frogs do the same thing, and the sex of turtles depends on the temperature of the egg while the turtle was developing. One bird of a common species, as I recall a bunting was both sexes, male coloring on one side of the bird, female coloring on the other, not fertile, and with a mosiac gene problem, but not like the human conditions because birds do not have obvious differences in sex organs. that's why chicken hatcheries have to hire people to sex the newly hatched chicks so that when customers want hens for eggs, they don't get males instead. Remember, roosters don't lay eggs refer to "Chicken Run and the hoodwinked rats that thought the flying rooster would give them eggs. (very funny movie)
Many insects can be either sex, and apparently the... (
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some fish are female when they are young and become male when they get older the one I am aware of is the Darado I believe on the East coast they call it a dolphin fish