which animal can change its gender?

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Yashna Bawa · Answer 1

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Clownfish: Clownfish are sequential hermaphrodites, which means that they can change their gender from male to female. This happens when the dominant female in a group dies, and the most dominant male will then become female.
Snails: Some snails, such as the ramshorn snail, can change their gender from male to female or vice versa depending on the needs of the population. For example, if there are too many males in a population, some of them may switch to female in order to reproduce.

Wrasse: Wrasse are another type of fish that can change their gender. In some species, the dominant male will become female if the current female dies. In other species, wrasse can change their gender multiple times throughout their lives.
Freshwater pipefish: Freshwater pipefish are fish that live in freshwater streams and rivers. They are also sequential hermaphrodites, and the most dominant male will become female if the current female dies.
Horseshoe crabs: Horseshoe crabs are not fish, but they are marine animals that can change their gender. Horseshoe crabs are protandric hermaphrodites, which means that they start out as males and then switch to female later in life.

The ability to change gender is an adaptation that helps some animals to survive and reproduce. For example, clownfish can change their gender to ensure that there is always a dominant female in the group. This is important because the dominant female is the one who lays the eggs. In wrasse, the ability to change gender allows for more flexibility in the social hierarchy. This can be helpful in populations where there are a lot of males or a lot of females.

The ability to change gender is a fascinating phenomenon that is still not fully understood. Scientists are still learning about the different ways that animals can change their gender and the reasons why they do it.

answered 1 year ago by Yashna Bawa

Anonymous User · Answer 2

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Ok! Get ready to read this exciting answer; as we know that the natural world revolve around sex. Essentially, to survive your generation long enough, to find and impress a mate—and.. and…have lots of offspring. This is a totally complicated structure that has led to all sorts of adaptations, but the one we’re going to discuss is the most surprising amongst—the ability to change sex.

Sex is largely defined before birth, for most of animals, and totally rely on the chromosomes one receives during the process of fertilization. Yet for some of the other animals like fruit flies, fish and some reptiles, things work in a little bit different manner.

Now, it’s time to see the list of six surprising animals that can change their sex on their own:

6. Fish

Well, fish are the most common and well-known among sex changers in the animal kingdom. Its man dominating world for clownfish as all clownfish are, in fact, born male. The one male in the group who is most dominant will change into female. Only one female in a clownfish exist in a group. In case she dies, then the largest male to change sex normally and take her place.

5. Corals

In 2008, one more species was discovered that can also change sex---mushroom corals and that too in both directions!

Actually, not much facts are known about the sex lives of corals, in comparison to fish. Although, it seems quite common for polyps to bud off from the parent in a form of clonal reproduction. We may see this ability to change sex in other coral species too.

4. Slugs

Slugs are surely at the top of the list of the animals who have a weird sex life. Slugs didn’t seem to be happy in choosing one sex. Slugs fall under hermaphrodites, who possess both female and male reproductive organs, which they use to mate simultaneously.

3. Frogs

The process of changing sex spontaneously has also been observed in the common reed frog from West Africa.

Irony is that human activities also seems to have had an effect on the sex of animals. Atrazine which is a commonly used pesticide has been claimed to change the sex of frogs who are exposed to it. It causes the frogs to increase production of oestrogen, turning males into fully active females. The impact of this on wild populations is currently a popular research topic among the biologists.

2. Snakes

Some female snakes such as the yellow-bellied water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster) kept alone in captivity have unexpectedly given birth to litters of baby snakes. It’s a type of asexual reproduction and might have evolved as a last resort strategy in a situation where no males can be available. These are known as parthenogenesis.

Exactly how it works on a cellular level is still a mystery, but scientists think that under certain conditions one of the egg cells can behave like a sperm. In other species such as sharks and amphibians, more parthenogenesis has been described, but so far it has never been reported in mammals.

1. Butterflies, Birds and Lobsters

Last, but not least, it is seen very occasionally, that animals can be born with both male and female sex organs. But these aren’t the unusual cases of hermaphrodites, they are actually half of each sex. This can be perhaps seen in butterflies, where all the wings could be of a different color. It is most likely to occur as a mistake in very early cell division which is known as gyandromorphs. Subsequently, the Gyandromorphs have been found in a number of other animals, including birds and lobsters.

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