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To: Red Badger

So no swapping once it is determined. Got it.


5 posted on 08/27/2025 5:31:26 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

In reptiles.

In fish, like grouper, an individual begins life as one sex, full equipped and functional for many years, and the later in life, becomes the opposite sex, fully functional, and finishes life that way.

In the case of the fish, temperature isn’t the trigger. As I recall, it is a combo of age, size, and possibly whether or not there is a need in the population for one sex or the other, so it may have to do with one sex having the ability to suppress the sexual capabilities ir development of a competitor of the same sex. It’s not my specialty but grouper are well known for switching sex. It makes managing the fisheries for them fairly interesting and challenging.


11 posted on 08/27/2025 5:42:54 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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