Forest dragon changes sex in recorded first
Callum Godde:
When there were no males around to mate with, a native Australian female forest dragon made itself into one.
Melbourne Aquarium has observed one of its Boyd’s forest dragons, a reptile found in the rainforests of northern Queensland, changing gender.
Reptile sex changes are rare and the aquarium team believes it is the first recorded case within the small species, which has distinctly different features among males and females.
The scaly creature had previously mated with a male and laid eggs, but stopped doing so after the death of the aquarium’s male.
It grew bigger and heavier and developed a more pronounced crest and yellow colouration, with aquarists using an ultrasound machine to unearth the cause of the changes.
They discovered there was no longer any ovarian tissue present and mature testes had developed.
“This confirmed to us that a change in female to male reproductive organs had indeed occurred against the odds,” SEA LIFE Melbourne’s Tom Fair said on Friday.
It is suspected the absence of a male in the display prompted the Boyd’s forest dragon’s evolution, but the Melbourne team can’t say for sure.
There is hope yet for all the Liarbor pardy weirdos, to learn how to fuck themselves.
HE Clark springs to mind.
Quite right and I have a photo to prove it.
ED, are you sure it’s not Mexican it’s got an uncanny resemblance to that well known “Queer” Ricardo Menendez March?
Art House projectionist. More like he changed the tapes and emptied the rubbish bins of used tissues in the gay porn movie theater! He has never said which art house theater, employed him! Probably paid in cash aswell!
So the lizard can’t find a bloke, because there aren’t any. So changes itself into one. Only to find that there are now no chicks.
This is total bullshit. It’s lies made up and propagated by some Marxist activist working for the aquarium.
More blatant propaganda designed to indoctrinate our children. “Hey, its cool in the natural world, so it must be cool for you too!”