5 Animals That Can Switch Genders 

You should do a video on weird mating practices. I recently learned that male mountain goats just kind of lie down in from of the female and act like a baby which is very weird but I’m sure not even close to the weirdest. I would love to hear them

If I'm not mistaken there are also some species of snails that are both male and female, and some species of clams can change their sex as well.

Fun fact: Chickens can also change sex, specifically hens can turn into fully functioning roosters. From my research, no one quite knows why this happens, or what triggers it, but it seems to happen most often when a flock consists of at least one male that is then removed, and when that happens, the dominant female may change into a male to fill the role of a functioning mate for the hens left behind. I once rescued a transitioning hen who was in mid-transition, and stopped transitioning when integrated into my all-male bachelor flock, and unlike other times that I had babysat hens for friends, my boys showed no sexual interest in her and treated her as one of their own. Her name was Dorothy, and she was a Spanish White-Face.

I love your videos man! They're always so informative and interesting.

Your work is excellent and very informative. Mark my words dear brother. You will have million subscribers soon. 🥰👍 all the best and don’t stop

this video is soo cool! i loved learning this, i wish they thought this in school too.

My favorite one is great white sharks. They're all males at birth. When they need a female, the biggest one just gets even bigger and fills that role. I love that all the giant badass great whites covered in scars and everything are just nice ladies underneath. XD Edit: Newers studies actually show sharks don't change gender. Ladies just take their time maturing. Oops... They are still chunky badasses, though!

Little correction here, they change their sex, not gender. Gender is something only humans have, but sex organizes which animal gives an egg, and which one doesn't.

For the sheep headed fish, if the alpha male mates with a female and it lays eggs, can that same female later transition and fight off its former baby daddy?

so crazy how this doesn’t have more views it shows the rest of us are not educated but it would probably help change society’s views

I love your videos! And also you have such nice skin lol

Great video!

i would love to see more videos like this!

Love your videos 🥰

It would be cool to see some sort of weird animal facts in every US State, doesn't even have to be mating related, just cool( or interesting) facts about an animal in each state. Like for example here in New Mexico, the New Mexican Blue Whiptails are all female!! (If I'm not mistaken)

I binged whatched all ur tic toks

nice, do you also have automatic hermaphrodites or H-pattern hermaphrodites? would be curious to know!

sex and gender are different, theres also many animals that play the social roles of the opposite sex without necessarily changing genitalia, like these animals do. these include mammals like lions and hyenas.

He got speedrun splits

Pls do video on white bellbird "the unicorn bird"

RU-vid these videos are great recommend this to everybody 👍👍

Is there any extinct or endangered animal on your Collections? ,

I learned way more in this video than I ever did in school

Im obsessed with this man now😾❤️

Show us an alligater

so with the goby what happens if they both transition? do they have signals to say "ill swap, you stay" or is there a hierarchy?

Coolest shit I’ve learned in a while, fish are so cool

We were worrying what the chemicals in the water were doing to frogs…we should have focused on the fish instead

When I was younger I used to think that the horn shark got its name from its big brows above its eyes😅

If you can't find a waifu, become one yourself.

Maybe they are all fish since fish were the first larger animals so they had more time to adapt to these lifestyles

do those jars smell

Did you know barnacles are also sequential hermaphrodites

I learn mor from you than in school😂

Are the only animals who can do this fish? Also I’d like to know how the transition actually works. How can they just change their genitalia?

goofy fish

Forgot to mention humans they be switching on the regs

Do the wet specimens smell bad?

Are you going to moderate the comments on this video?

We can't talk about it but it's scientific FACT! It's like the Dark Ages!

super cool to see how this occurs in nature! im curious if there are any mammals that do this, or if this is a part of fish biology (besides humans of course, but its less for reproduction reasons like these)

people be like; you can just change genders!!!!! dawg explain this then 🤨

Once again my childhood destroyed by nature

Clicked on video anticipating comments on current events. Was not disappointed.

i do kinda wish to be one of those animals fr

This vid is so relatable rn whyy

I wonder now what will happens if all of the clownfish are female🤨

does this mean these species are born with both reproductive systems?

Can you present this for Congress and Supreme Court?

Didn’t realize there was more than one

Bruh this is easy change the settings :/

Can we PLEASE have ONE video that mentions gender without "Traditional" folxs coming in to say "humans aren't on that list haha"? Im transgender and it is the last thing I give a shit about, Im here for the damn science info! "Oh no they cant figure out-" shut up just shut up this is about clown fish, the survival need for some species to produce eggs instead of sperm, and this guy's massive amazing collection. Not your inherit need to joke about someone else's life.

t r a n s f i s h

Some sea slugs will fight upon meeting and the loser is injected with lady hormones and has to be the bottom when they mate

Nemo dad turned into girl after his transgender partner got ate 😮

they are just like me

Don't forget Chris Tyson.

Can you show us helicoprion, megalodon, and livyatan?

So you are saying that fishes are better at understanding gender fluidity than us…

i bet if it was called "transgender" instead of "sequential hermaphrodite", and people where raised around the normality of the term in nature, human transgender would be a bit less, lets say, controversial amongst certain folks.

I wanna be a silly fish ooooo

they're just like me fr

shouldn't it be "can switch sex" instead of gender ?

Who knew mother nature was so progressive

I feel like a science oriented channel should absolutely be expected to highlight the distinction between sex and gender

This don't work so well with humans.

Hermaphrodite is not a dirty word! It comes from the Greek mythological figure Hermaphroditus who was both male and female, and that name itself is a mashup of Hermaphroditus' parents' names, Hermes and Aphrodite. The word hermaphrodite is a specific and useful term in biology used to refer to organisms that have the capability to produce both sperm and eggs (either sequentially or simultaneously) and the loss or taboo-ification of this term would cause unnecessary confusion and shame around useful scientific terms. I do think however, that it is important to use the term correctly. The word hermaphrodite is not "sketchy to use in regular conversations" it is _inaccurate_ to use outside of its biological context. (Although, in a regular conversation about clownfish for example it might be accurate.) Calling a human person a hermaphrodite would just be plain incorrect and ignorant (As of 2024 there are no known cases of true hermaphroditism in humans.), and above all, calling someone that just sounds kind of old-timey and weird and might make you look like you don't know what the hell you're talking about. For context: I am transgender myself, with a hobbyist level of interest in both biology and linguistics. I also want to address two of the oft brought up topics in the comments. Frequent comment 1: "Sex and gender are different" Please be aware that this is a linguistic model, not immutable word of god or anything. It is one way of categorizing and disambiguating these two words, sex and gender. The split sex/gender model is the predominant model to describe sex and gender in the modern day (as of writing this in 2024) but it was not always used, and might not be forever. I think the thing that's most important is that people understand what you mean. When you talk about the "gender" of a non-human animal, since they don't really have societal identities like us, I think most people would assume that what you are actually referring to is the reproductive sex of the animal, thus there isn't really any confusion in that context. Also, the words gender and sex have been used interchangeably for a long time. It would not be unreasonable for someone to use the terms reproductive gender and gender identity instead, for instance. The purpose of language is to convey meaning, not to be an inflexible pedant about minute details of "proper" phrasing. Context matters! And in this context, I think the intention is clear, unambiguous, and non-harmful. Besides, I do actually have some minor gripes with some people's usage of the split sex/gender model. I don't think the model is bad, mind you, but reality is more nuanced than most people assume. Hypothetically, if you ask several transgender women if they are male-sexed but female-gendered, you are likely to receive a lot of rightfully indignant responses. It is generally considered insulting to call a woman male, whether she is a trans woman or not, and it is likewise insulting to call a man female. (Unless they want you to call them that, as may sometimes be the case for bigender or genderfluid individuals. When in doubt, ask.) Another point of contention is that people who hormonally transition (which most trans people do), actually do in fact change their sex phenotype, that is to say, they change many if not all of the outward observable characteristics used to identify the sexes. Sex phenotype is in fact, a component of what constitutes one sex or the other! Trans people don't produce gametes opposite of their birth-assigned sex, but sometimes trans people are not capable of producing the gametes associated with their birth assigned sex either. Does that make them neuter rather than male or female? If you have say for instance, a trans man who is incapable of producing either sperm or eggs, and a cis man who is likewise incapable, and they both have a male sex phenotype, then why categorize them any differently? Food for thought, I guess. Frequent comment 2: "huhuh humans aren't on the list lol. get rekt wokesters" Please read my explanation about the correct usage of the term hermaphrodite above. Trans people being non-hermaphroditic does not in any way invalidate them or their gender identity so this isn't the own that you seem to think it is. Cross-sex hormone therapy and organ transplantation are both commonly done today. It's not out of the realm of reason that, through surgical intervention, someone might actually be able to have a functional gonad implanted, and thus produce both sperm and eggs at different points in their life, or even possibly at the same time. I don't know if elective hermaphroditism in humans is going to happen next week, or in 100 years, but it's not outside the realm of possibility so it stands to reason that it will eventually be done. Where there's a will there's a way.

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So basically trans fish?

o wow , those animals can switch genders just like humans can nowadays , awesome!!

and some Humans are so jealous of their abilities

Notice how they all have fins and gills...

For reproductive purposes

Human was not on the list? Hmm

“the lgbtq is bad because it doesn’t exist in nature” meanwhile trans animals:

I am so sorry that a video about zoology has a bunch of political comments. We cannot let science be tainted by opinions.

Oh no this just got in my recommended it's about to get political here

Sex not gender

Number 6: Me

You missed out humans.... Oh, I see...

Someone's going to come In and correct him saying "gender isn't the same as sex xweety 💅🏿"

Hence there is a quote "Don't be a animal, Be a like human "

They are switching sexes not genders. This is an error in terminology that you should honestly know.

“Transgenders aren’t natural” …Nemo would be to differ 🤣

transgender fish

Transgender fish...

And people say that transgenderism isnt a natural occurrence at all... so many animals participate in the change of sex and gender rolls, clearly our species also fits into that! It's exciting too as we have so many intersex humans and sexual transition is very much possible for all sexes to another sex. (At least on the hormonal level and with most phenotypes) A complete change obviously needs a bit of extra help. It's just so cool, nature's cool.

When fishes becomes LGBTQ+ Icons

Gender or sex? 🙃

6 animals that can change genders* a human they can also become animals we can become anything these days

so what you’re telling me is that clownfish is the transfem icon /j

*Mammals Can't BTW.*

notice how humans aren't on the list

Fishes said Trans Rights! 😂

Trans rights!

Im a Asian sheepshead fish I was born female and now I'm transitioning to male

No surgery required.

Notice humans are not on this list for a peculiar reason

so humans arent on this list..twitter should take note

Can't wait for the homophobia