She’s handsome
It will choose its gender when it's good and ready.
Rare 'half-male, half-female' cardinal photographed in Pennsylvania
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Re: Rare 'half-male, half-female' cardinal photographed in Pennsylvania
#92Anyone during childhood have to study a particular state? I was given Pennsylvania in grade school. Basically a poster everyone does about state birds, flowers. All I remember about this poster which I had forgotten about until now is the state bird, cardinal. I think it is also the only red bird of this size?
The state bird of Pennsylvania is the Ruffed Grouse. The Cardinal is the state bird of a different Commonwealth: Virginia.
The cardinal is the most common state bird, representing 7 states
Re: Rare 'half-male, half-female' cardinal photographed in Pennsylvania
#93Someone needs to run high res pics of this through one of the bird recognition phone apps
Merlin has no trouble with it, unsurprisingly.
Re: Rare 'half-male, half-female' cardinal photographed in Pennsylvania
#94So, in what other species can "bilateral gynandromorphism" occur? I'm not having much success googling this. Also, is this just a specific type of genetic mosaicism? I've heard of humans with mosaic DNA (sometimes showing up as patches of alternative skin/hair coloration, etc.); but for some reason I've never heard of humans with mosaic DNA of two different chromosomal sexes.
I don't have any sources for that but I have an anecdotal story.
While I was volunteering in a support group for transgender people, I once spoke to a woman who had a lot of complex issues with her hormone replacement therapy.
She was on a mix of medication that I had never seen before and I got worried that her health provider was prescribing an incorrect treatment.
This got me to ask questions I would never ask usually out of worry.
She told me that the reason that her medication was not the usual treatment is that she had a condition in which different parts of her bodies had different chromosomes. She told the exact name of the condition at the time but I did not write it down. I do remember the word "chimerism" being said during this conversation.
From experience, stories about weird conditions said by trans people are almost always true. She seemed very sincere about her struggles.
Re: Rare 'half-male, half-female' cardinal photographed in Pennsylvania
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
The body of evidence about the effects of endocrine disruptors/gender bending chemicals on the destruction of species is many decades in the making. Axios is just one of many to publish such stories: [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726844/ [2] https://www.epa.gov/chemical-research/research-endocrine-dis... [3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-019-0273-8 [4] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l…
I'm way more wary of people who post a lot, have been on the site for nearly a decade, and get everything they post voted down and flagged on a consistent basis.
yeah if anything I'm saying doesn't make any sense to you or it's wrong then it makes sense to downvote it, right? but when people provide evidence to prove otherwise, not sure why the down votes happen. One thing I do see about this site is that it is quite ironic that the majority of downvoted comments actually are the most insightful, and maybe that's because people just cannot handle the truth. you be the judge. Down vote me some more, it seems to make everyone feel better when they do that.