Transgendered animals on the increase

[urbpan]

From anais2

A variety of different chemicals are found to disrupt hormones in vertebrates, affecting mostly male animals:

"Half the male fish in British lowland rivers have been found to be developing eggs in their testes..."
"...Research at the University of Florida earlier this year found that 40 per cent of the male cane toads ... had become hermaphrodites in a heavily farmed part of the state..."
"...Two-thirds of male Sitka black-tailed deer in Alaska have been found to have undescended testes and deformed antler growth..."
"It is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born as girls instead in the US and Japan alone."


(I didn't think I'd ever get to use my "transgendered animals" tag again."

Comments

[candent.livejournal.com]

"He" :)

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

Details, details ;)