5 Animals That Can Switch Genders
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2024
- All of these animals switch genders throughout their lifetime. Clownfish, wrasse, hamlet, and more.
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Specimen use made possible by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
You should do a video on weird mating practices. I recently learned that male mountain goats just kind of lie down in from of the female and act like a baby which is very weird but I’m sure not even close to the weirdest. I would love to hear them
Furries are pretty weird.
@@jebthereb2 What does that have to do with his comment??
@@TraviskyOriginal are you a furry?
@@jebthereb2 pretty sure they means non human mating practices.
Bro fr kink shaming goats 💀
If I'm not mistaken there are also some species of snails that are both male and female, and some species of clams can change their sex as well.
you'd be surprised by the sheer number of invertebrates that are actually hermaphrodite.
yep!! loads of invertebrates and fish are hermaphrodites. it's curiously absent in non-fish vertebrates though, and I don't really know why. surely hermaphroditism would be beneficial for say, a mammal or reptile too, especially for those that are naturally scarce? I don't know the answer, but I'd love to learn more about this, it's very interesting!
Fun fact: Chickens can also change sex, specifically hens can turn into fully functioning roosters. From my research, no one quite knows why this happens, or what triggers it, but it seems to happen most often when a flock consists of at least one male that is then removed, and when that happens, the dominant female may change into a male to fill the role of a functioning mate for the hens left behind.
I once rescued a transitioning hen who was in mid-transition, and stopped transitioning when integrated into my all-male bachelor flock, and unlike other times that I had babysat hens for friends, my boys showed no sexual interest in her and treated her as one of their own. Her name was Dorothy, and she was a Spanish White-Face.
wait really i thought it was just a behavioral change hens start mounting crowing and acting like a rooster but never being able to fertilize eggs
@@cumunist2120 Yup. They pull the full clown fish trick all the way through.
We had as a family chicken farms since my father we never had a female becoming a male and we had many times where the roosters has been removed from the rest of the chickens....
@@panagiotispanagiotou2579it’s pretty rare, 1 in 10000. It happens when a hen ovaries are damaged and it’s also at the top of the pecking order so it’s behavior becomes more rooster like, it undergoes a change that basically turn it into a rooster except it cannot fertilize any eggs because genetically it’s still a hen.
Probably due to genetic factors
I love your videos man! They're always so informative and interesting.
this video is soo cool! i loved learning this, i wish they thought this in school too.
Your work is excellent and very informative. Mark my words dear brother. You will have million subscribers soon. 🥰👍 all the best and don’t stop
It would be cool to see some sort of weird animal facts in every US State, doesn't even have to be mating related, just cool( or interesting) facts about an animal in each state.
Like for example here in New Mexico, the New Mexican Blue Whiptails are all female!!
(If I'm not mistaken)
there's also the Amazon Molly, a species of live-bearing fish that is all female (the rare male does exist, but the numbers are so low the species is still considered entirely female). the Amazon Molly still needs to mate with a male fish from another species (the other similar molly species that share a habitat with the Amazon Molly) to trigger egg development, but none of their genetic material is incorporated into the developing egg, thus producing only more Amazon Mollies that are clones of the mother. what is really interesting is that the Amazon Molly has been reproducing this way for about 500,000 generations, and all-female species like this typically go extinct after less than 100,000 generations, due to accumulating harmful mutations. it is currently unknown why the Amazon Molly has been able to persist this far, and the fish are still healthy - hopefully, future studies will shine a light on why!
@@fubberpish3614 Wow! That's cool! I didn't know that, and I'm pretty sure, doesn't the Blue Whiptail do the same thing? Anyways, interesting! Thanks for the response!
@@atlas.is.i yep! the New Mexico Whiptail does the same thing. there is one difference though, the whiptails do not mate with males of a different species to trigger ovulation, rather they mate with other female New Mexico Whiptails.
@@fubberpish3614 The case of New Mexico Whiptails is very interesting! However, female New Mexico Whiptails won't mate with other females. They reproduce asexually, as they're all female (and female can't reproduce with other females) and parthenogenetic, so their embryos will develop without needing any fertilization from a male.
so crazy how this doesn’t have more views it shows the rest of us are not educated but it would probably help change society’s views
@HH cool, but your right to not mod yourself ends at my bodily autonomy. piss off.
My favorite one is great white sharks. They're all males at birth. When they need a female, the biggest one just gets even bigger and fills that role. I love that all the giant badass great whites covered in scars and everything are just nice ladies underneath. XD
Edit: Newers studies actually show sharks don't change gender. Ladies just take their time maturing. Oops... They are still chunky badasses, though!
I just think its its funny that yhe dominant land species that doesnt need to do this and cant actually do it to produce offspring are sitting here copying clown fish and failing.
uh... great whites are not all males at birth
you might be confusing sexual maturity time with sequential hermaphrodite as it does take female white sharks longer to be mature enough to breed compared to males but im very sure sharks are not hermaphroditic
That's not true. Great white sharks are either male or female and are not known to change sex at all. Pump corrected you. Recent studies indicate that males take around 26 years to reach maturity, while females take around 33. Females are larger than males of respective age on average. They are quite complex and unexpectedly social animals as well, with females being dominant.
@@pump6400 I guess the research has changed since I was younger. Thanks for informing me.
For the sheep headed fish, if the alpha male mates with a female and it lays eggs, can that same female later transition and fight off its former baby daddy?
all of them end up male if they grow big enough
i would love to see more videos like this!
If you can't find a waifu, become one yourself.
Twitter users have taken this too seriously
What kind of commet is this 🤔
so true
As a trans girl, I have taken notes.
This worked. I'm my own waifu now, and 7 months pregnant. 👍
sex and gender are different, theres also many animals that play the social roles of the opposite sex without necessarily changing genitalia, like these animals do. these include mammals like lions and hyenas.
Gender was a made up term by "dr" john money who commited horrible acts against children and in the end his findings proved to be inconclusive anyway. Gender isn't actually a real thing, it was just used a lot and so became synonymous with gender. Sex is the only word we should be using.
right? it keeps bothering me the use of gender since it's not accurate
@@sebastyann123 exactly this.
The terms are interchangeable in the world of animal biology. Zoology is unaffected by modern identity politics.
Also I though Gender roles are sexist anyway so why are you applying them to animals in order to be switched in the first place.
Logic really doesn’t exist nower days does it?!
I love your videos! And also you have such nice skin lol
Little correction here, they change their sex, not gender. Gender is something only humans have, but sex organizes which animal gives an egg, and which one doesn't.
More people need to hear this.
@@hnewc1919 wrong. They are not interchangeable for the reasons stated above. If saying sex makes you uncomfortable, then please grow up.
@@hnewc1919 what are you even talking about? Like what does that have to do with anything?
@@hnewc1919 it's not an ideology, it's just definitions of words, man. Also, doesn't that just prove that the words aren't interchangeable? I genuinely don't know where you're coming from.
@@hnewc1919 ok, I just looked this John money guy up, and the fact that you actually fell for that is embarrassing. You did successfully waste both of our time, so congratulations there.
Is there any extinct or endangered animal on your Collections? ,
Coolest shit I’ve learned in a while, fish are so cool
Did you know barnacles are also sequential hermaphrodites
its very common for invertebrates, especially ones that don't move a lot, to be one
I learned way more in this video than I ever did in school
He got speedrun splits
Maybe they are all fish since fish were the first larger animals so they had more time to adapt to these lifestyles
hey lets not forget invertebrates
Are the only animals who can do this fish? Also I’d like to know how the transition actually works. How can they just change their genitalia?
Frogs can do it as well
I binged whatched all ur tic toks
UA-cam these videos are great recommend this to everybody 👍👍
so with the goby what happens if they both transition? do they have signals to say "ill swap, you stay" or is there a hierarchy?
Great video!
We can't talk about it but it's scientific FACT! It's like the Dark Ages!
Love your videos 🥰
Im obsessed with this man now😾❤️
nice, do you also have automatic hermaphrodites or H-pattern hermaphrodites? would be curious to know!
We were worrying what the chemicals in the water were doing to frogs…we should have focused on the fish instead
t r a n s f i s h
people be like; you can just change genders!!!!!
dawg explain this then 🤨
Are you an Clownfish? I don´t think so.
Dawg, these are Animal Kingdom plz stop making a Fool of yourself.
If Humanity finally achieve Hermaphrodite status, then you can talk to us.
we are also animals tf
humans cant change sex yet ofc dummy, but we we can change gender. gender and sex are two different things
@@wahey2839 Humanity are Dumb, they change thier genders because of their "Identity" not because the importance mating like clownfishes do.
Selfish Animal Species that can't even change sex naturally.
Pls do video on white bellbird "the unicorn bird"
Do the wet specimens smell bad?
depends on the substance, some preservatives do smell really bad while other substances like ethanol might not have any smell at all
Asking the true questions
When I was younger I used to think that the horn shark got its name from its big brows above its eyes😅
Show us an alligater
Can we PLEASE have ONE video that mentions gender without "Traditional" folxs coming in to say "humans aren't on that list haha"? Im transgender and it is the last thing I give a shit about, Im here for the damn science info! "Oh no they cant figure out-" shut up just shut up this is about clown fish, the survival need for some species to produce eggs instead of sperm, and this guy's massive amazing collection.
Not your inherit need to joke about someone else's life.
*Transgender and intersex folxs are an important conversation to have but clearly this is not the video for such topics.
the worst thing about this video is animals cant change gender... they can only change sex.... because animals dont have a gender or gender roles.. they do what pleases them xD
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@Chicken_cocknballsoup7376 you are you on about?
Hermaphrodite is not a dirty word! It comes from the Greek mythological figure Hermaphroditus who was both male and female, and that name itself is a mashup of Hermaphroditus' parents' names, Hermes and Aphrodite. The word hermaphrodite is a specific and useful term in biology used to refer to organisms that have the capability to produce both sperm and eggs (either sequentially or simultaneously) and the loss or taboo-ification of this term would cause unnecessary confusion and shame around useful scientific terms.
I do think however, that it is important to use the term correctly. The word hermaphrodite is not "sketchy to use in regular conversations" it is _inaccurate_ to use outside of its biological context. (Although, in a regular conversation about clownfish for example it might be accurate.) Calling a human person a hermaphrodite would just be plain incorrect and ignorant (As of 2024 there are no known cases of true hermaphroditism in humans.), and above all, calling someone that just sounds kind of old-timey and weird and might make you look like you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
For context: I am transgender myself, with a hobbyist level of interest in both biology and linguistics.
I also want to address two of the oft brought up topics in the comments.
Frequent comment 1: "Sex and gender are different"
Please be aware that this is a linguistic model, not immutable word of god or anything. It is one way of categorizing and disambiguating these two words, sex and gender. The split sex/gender model is the predominant model to describe sex and gender in the modern day (as of writing this in 2024) but it was not always used, and might not be forever. I think the thing that's most important is that people understand what you mean. When you talk about the "gender" of a non-human animal, since they don't really have societal identities like us, I think most people would assume that what you are actually referring to is the reproductive sex of the animal, thus there isn't really any confusion in that context. Also, the words gender and sex have been used interchangeably for a long time. It would not be unreasonable for someone to use the terms reproductive gender and gender identity instead, for instance. The purpose of language is to convey meaning, not to be an inflexible pedant about minute details of "proper" phrasing. Context matters! And in this context, I think the intention is clear, unambiguous, and non-harmful.
Besides, I do actually have some minor gripes with some people's usage of the split sex/gender model. I don't think the model is bad, mind you, but reality is more nuanced than most people assume. Hypothetically, if you ask several transgender women if they are male-sexed but female-gendered, you are likely to receive a lot of rightfully indignant responses. It is generally considered insulting to call a woman male, whether she is a trans woman or not, and it is likewise insulting to call a man female. (Unless they want you to call them that, as may sometimes be the case for bigender or genderfluid individuals. When in doubt, ask.) Another point of contention is that people who hormonally transition (which most trans people do), actually do in fact change their sex phenotype, that is to say, they change many if not all of the outward observable characteristics used to identify the sexes. Sex phenotype is in fact, a component of what constitutes one sex or the other! Trans people don't produce gametes opposite of their birth-assigned sex, but sometimes trans people are not capable of producing the gametes associated with their birth assigned sex either. Does that make them neuter rather than male or female? If you have say for instance, a trans man who is incapable of producing either sperm or eggs, and a cis man who is likewise incapable, and they both have a male sex phenotype, then why categorize them any differently? Food for thought, I guess.
Frequent comment 2: "huhuh humans aren't on the list lol. get rekt wokesters"
Please read my explanation about the correct usage of the term hermaphrodite above. Trans people being non-hermaphroditic does not in any way invalidate them or their gender identity so this isn't the own that you seem to think it is.
Cross-sex hormone therapy and organ transplantation are both commonly done today. It's not out of the realm of reason that, through surgical intervention, someone might actually be able to have a functional gonad implanted, and thus produce both sperm and eggs at different points in their life, or even possibly at the same time. I don't know if elective hermaphroditism in humans is going to happen next week, or in 100 years, but it's not outside the realm of possibility so it stands to reason that it will eventually be done. Where there's a will there's a way.
My question is how do they do it 😭
i do kinda wish to be one of those animals fr
egg
🥚
@@adminsauce6077 I was egg 8 months ago, but now I am already cracked 😎
@@oldalpredstone2834 based, gl out there bro/sis.
@@adminsauce6077 thanks ❤️
So basically trans fish?
Forgot to mention humans they be switching on the regs
do those jars smell
super cool to see how this occurs in nature! im curious if there are any mammals that do this, or if this is a part of fish biology (besides humans of course, but its less for reproduction reasons like these)
there are no warmblooded animal currently known in our world that is hermaphroditic naturally but there are isolated cases of genetic mutants being hermaphrodites but they dont live very long.
basically its not viable
to my knowledge, hermaphroditism in vertebrates is restricted to the ray-finned fishes (class Actinopterygii). it is not known to occur in any other vertebrates. it is present in various invertebrates as well.
I do wonder why hermaphroditism in vertebrates is restricted to fish? it seems to have evolved separately on many unrelated fish lineages, so there's clearly a decent benefit to it in fish, and not an awfully difficult thing to evolve. what about other vertebrates makes it not beneficial, so they never evolved it even once?
@@fubberpish3614 probably due to the size of their natural environment and the difficulty of finding a mate in such a vast oceanic world? For example: parasitic worms tend to be hermaphroditic due to the difficulty of finding a mate and oh boy imagine being a worm in someones gut and u find out its just another boy that came in with you.... hahahahah, hence being a hermaphrodite gives an advantage to that scenario
@@pump6400 that does make sense for some species (like the clownfish, which is more or less confined to it's host anemone all it's life), but less so for others - say, the tropical wrasse or anthias species. they are abundant reef-dwelling fish (each individual reef is often not that large, perhaps a few kilometres across at most, and small reef fish often do not move between reefs, as adults at least), so I can't imagine finding a mate would be too much of an issue. perhaps it has more to do with maximising the number of potential mates, and thus the genetic diversity of offspring? still, that hardly seems like something only fish would benefit from, so why did non-fish vertebrates never evolve sequential hermaphroditism? I'd love to learn more about this, it's super interesting!
This don't work so well with humans.
goofy fish
they're just like me fr
I learn mor from you than in school😂
Clicked on video anticipating comments on current events. Was not disappointed.
So you are saying that fishes are better at understanding gender fluidity than us…
Because mammals are different from fish
I wonder now what will happens if all of the clownfish are female🤨
not possible as fish ranked below the dominant female(s) will always remain male
Who knew mother nature was so progressive
This vid is so relatable rn whyy
Can you present this for Congress and Supreme Court?
THATS WHAT I ALWAYS SAY!
… eugh…
Nemo dad turned into girl after his transgender partner got ate 😮
i bet if it was called "transgender" instead of "sequential hermaphrodite", and people where raised around the normality of the term in nature, human transgender would be a bit less, lets say, controversial amongst certain folks.
Sex not gender
Its literally the same thing
@@Box-bp3wx animals don't have gender concepts, like stupid stereotypes are role models.
@@Likorys888try that against certain species and believe me, that made up concept you speak about won't stop the male or female from going violent
“the lgbtq is bad because it doesn’t exist in nature”
meanwhile trans animals:
lgbtq is bad because the people making up those concepts are humans and only affect humans. Which isn’t natural to homo Sapiens. Like he said, animals eat poop, eat their babies, reproduce exclusively through incest etc. If you search for examples in favor of your made up concept then that just makes you look stupid 😂
Meanwhile for mammals, which includes humans, it doesn't apply as it hasn't for millions of years.....
Transgender fish...
It's not exactly changing genders.
It's actually changing its sex, its chromosomes.
does this mean these species are born with both reproductive systems?
Yes, that's what Hermaphrodite is, Sister.
@@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad yes and no, some are born with both some transform it.... for a lack of a better word
take note that fish reproduction is very different to mammals as fish usually lay eggs outside then the male sprays it with milt. emphasis on usually
@@pump6400 That's what i am saying, Hermaphrodite usually comes with both sex organs. Sister
When fishes becomes LGBTQ+ Icons
they are just like me
Are you going to moderate the comments on this video?
why?
looks like he isnt. Shitty ally looks like
@@dowkinners4106transphobia
And people say that transgenderism isnt a natural occurrence at all... so many animals participate in the change of sex and gender rolls, clearly our species also fits into that! It's exciting too as we have so many intersex humans and sexual transition is very much possible for all sexes to another sex. (At least on the hormonal level and with most phenotypes) A complete change obviously needs a bit of extra help. It's just so cool, nature's cool.
I'm sorry to break your bubble Honey but *Humanity* aren't Hermaphrodite like these Animals.
The only way for *Humanity* to transgenderism is going through Surgery.
Transgenderism isn’t a word. For this instance it would be “transitioning genders.”
This does matter. People are led to believe this is a ideology or decision by calling it a ism when it’s not. It’s similar to “Transgenders” which isn’t correct either (trans is a adjective in this usage so it would be “trans women”, “trans person” or “trans man”)
it's not a natural occurrence in Humans, its an occurrence.
Lmao, woke activists got clapped and ratiod by two nerds, that is awesome 💀
@@Jason_H_Martitinez Where in this did they say they were a "woke activist"?
Oh no this just got in my recommended it's about to get political here
HE WAS A CONLUS OF ROMMMMEEEE
And that’s how Julius Cesar saved the republic
transgender fish
whats the suicide rate there
transgender fish
@@Fizozz Probably zero since they aren't shunned and blacklisted from their fish families and fish society for being authentic to who they are.
Also its a fish and their existential crisis only happens as they slide down the throat of their predator.
Lets not joke about the unaliving of a group of people.
@@belltowercollective7821 since they aren’t humans anymore. They shouldn’t be counted as a group of people.
W
shouldn't it be "can switch sex" instead of gender ?
Nope, Gender is the correct term
@@dowkinners4106 gender does not involve sexual gonads my dude
@@sebastyann123 it does in the world of animal biology, just not in human sociology. The two are separate and the terms are too. I understand that in humans the common belief is that gender and sex are different, and I’m cool with that but it’s just not the case when having a scientific discussion about animals.
@@dowkinners4106 You don't need to be "cool" with a scientific fact tho, gender and sex are completely different things especially if we are talking about humans.
And gender and sex are not synonymous not even in the animal kingdom. Just search about it. And please if you find a paper that proves me wrong care to share it with me.
@@sebastyann123 We aren’t talking about Humans. I don’t need to prove you wrong haha. Just because you are trans it doesn’t change how the scientific community discusses things.
Some sea slugs will fight upon meeting and the loser is injected with lady hormones and has to be the bottom when they mate
Hot.
Gender or sex? 🙃
Im a Asian sheepshead fish I was born female and now I'm transitioning to male
so what you’re telling me is that clownfish is the transfem icon /j
They are switching sexes not genders. This is an error in terminology that you should honestly know.
so humans arent on this list..twitter should take note
and some Humans are so jealous of their abilities
I am so sorry that a video about zoology has a bunch of political comments. We cannot let science be tainted by opinions.
The right are all for freedom of personal expression until somebody who is not a white male wants to vote or somebody wants to transition
notice how humans aren't on the list
They shouldn’t be
because humans cannot physically change their sex like a frog or a fish.. he's using the wrong term, these animals are changing sex not gender
You missed out humans....
Oh, I see...
funny thing because he's using the wrong term, humans cant change their sex like fish and frogs, but they dont have to abide by stupid dumb gender roles like animals dont either
@@Lumpybag "stupid dumb gender roles" that have served human civilisation for millenia.
There is a reason why these roles evolved as they did... But I guess a few years on a 'gender studies' course will fix all of that.
If you think that is a silly notion, consider the great apes and the roles males and females have in their communities. You will notice that they behave in a very similar way to how we do with our "stupid dumb gender roles". Now why do you think that is?
Number 6: Me
o wow , those animals can switch genders just like humans can nowadays , awesome!!
I wanna be a silly fish ooooo
Talk about transgender
“Transgenders aren’t natural” …Nemo would be to differ 🤣
For mammals, it aint... So it aint natural
@EternalEmperorofZakuul a lot of things we do aren't natural
@@Box-bp3wxlike race mixing, integrating, not enforcing our borders.
@@EternalEmperorofZakuul I was more talking about the internet
@@Box-bp3wx but those things are unnatural, like you've said
Fishes said Trans Rights! 😂
Didn’t realize there was more than one
Human was not on the list? Hmm
Because humans can’t
Imagine that
@@jacombodoescare my humor is among the driest
Trans vibes
I feel like a science oriented channel should absolutely be expected to highlight the distinction between sex and gender
very true,
No, the modern leftist ideologies from the west haven’t got that much in relation with nature.
@@vxnxmm POV: you have never read a book you weren’t forced to read
@@desertracoon9599 I have, I also have read a lot of scientific articles. If you can’t provide a reason to why I seem to have never read a book I wasn’t forced to then that makes you the one in a bad spot…
@@vxnxmm that’s sad, you can read every book accept a dictionary
Once again my childhood destroyed by nature
Notice humans are not on this list for a peculiar reason
hey lets keep this scientific dont need to add any political drama now
@@pump6400 They are keeping it scientific.
because he's talking about things that change sex, not gender, he's using the wrong term, humans cannot naturally change sex because we have only been around for a few thousand years, unlike fish and frogs who have been around for billions
@@LumpybagHere's hoping we can in a billion years
@@LumpybagEven our oldest cousins didnt achieved sex changed abilities despite living for millions of years ..the homo erectus and neanderthals didn't because mammals can't . U have to give ur hope up 😂
Someone's going to come In and correct him saying "gender isn't the same as sex xweety 💅🏿"
aaand it happened. Scroll up a bit lol
because he's wrong, why shouldnt we correct him? xD
@@Lumpybag "gender" as a social thing for humans is a recently added meaning ...
In a scientific context like zoology, for instance when talking about fish, gender can be a synonym of sex, it's perfectly fine. That's the term scientists have always used.
Cringe
And here comes a woke telling a zoologist how to do their job 🤦🏽♂️
Don't forget Chris Tyson.
Can't wait for the homophobia
Transphobia actually
@@Emperorchoochoo eh close enough
6 animals that can change genders* a human they can also become animals we can become anything these days
humans are the only thing with a gender, animals all have sexes [female and male], an animal cannot be transgender, it can be transsexual
@@Lumpybag yeah I understand that I just meant it as a joke
Notice that human is not on this list lol
ABsolutely right!
Trans rights!
No surgery required.