How fish change gender to survive: The natural adaptation of clownfish, wrasses, and sea turtles

Many aquatic animals exhibit sequential hermaphroditism, changing sex to adapt to environmental cues, social dominance, or ...
KRQE Blogs

Scientists get peek into how some fish change sex as adults

NEW YORK (AP) — If in the beginning there was male and female, fish seem to have forgotten the memo. For nearly 500 fish species, including the clownfish in “Finding Nemo,” the great divide between ...
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Are there queer animals?

From penguins to bonobos, queer behaviors in wildlife are natural and diverse. Learn how animals challenge human taboos and ...
EurekAlert!

Sex-changing fish quick to assert dominance

University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have discovered that it takes mere minutes for a species of sex-changing fish to develop dominant behaviour after a change in the pecking order.
The Scientist

Sex determination in fish

No equivalent to the mammalian Sry sex-determining gene has been found in non-mammalian vertebrates. In an Advanced Online Publication in Nature, Masaru Matsuda and colleagues describe the ...
WWNO

The women of No Sex for Fish are survivors — but their survival is precarious

"Our members are surviving with grace," says Justine Adhiambo Obura, the chairperson of No Sex for Fish. She's talking about a cooperative of 20 women who did the unthinkable. They are fishmongers ...
NPR

The women of No Sex for Fish are survivors — but their survival is precarious

She's talking about a cooperative of 20 women who did the unthinkable. They are fishmongers from the village of Nduru Beach in Kenya who said no to fishermen who demanded: Give me sex, and I'll make ...