Rare half female, half male bird spotted by University of Otago zoologist
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#2half female, half male phenotype.
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#3I thought they meant hermaphrodite but then saw the picture. They mean luterally half, right down the middle.
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#5Which we can all agree is both cool and a biological anomaly… much like it can happen in humans.
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#6half female, half male phenotype .
That makes it sound like it's highly technical and uninteresting - on a completely layman level even it's pretty fascinating, there's a photo, it's split right down the middle with one colour (each apparently as would be expected from the male or female bird) each side!
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#7half female, half male phenotype .
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> “The phenomenon arises from an error during female cell division to produce an egg, followed by double-fertilization by two sperm,” he explains.
The bird is a chimera, with a different genome on each side of its body, one male (ZZ), one female (ZW).
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#8Cool looking bird
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#10half female, half male phenotype .
caused by a half male and half female.... conplete it with me...