GIP

[redbird]

This is a cardinal that is half-male, half-female (vertically divided). Via beetiger. The technical term seems to be gynandromorph. I'm assuming it's sterile, but haven't done any reading, just followed the link to the image

Comments

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Time to rename your LJ account to 'halfredbird'!

[redbird]

Redbird is a common name for the species, male and female; you aren't only half a Zi ri.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I am enlightened?

(But ... would I be a Zi? Or a Ri?)

[redbird]

I was thinking that the name doesn't pertain to only one gender, so a being that isn't only male or only female is still entitled to it. Sorry if my logic is obscure. (You may now think it's wrong, but at least I hope you know what I'm trying to say.)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry! I meant to say, "I am enlightened!" but my translator somehow got the interrogative particle from the next sentence stuck on the first one too.)

[redbird]

Not a problem. Translation is not easy even if the person doing it is fluent in both languages.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Yep, this is one of the more common forms of hemaphroditism (in the biological sense), and also occurs in humans. One gonad becomes an ovary, the other a testicle.

[firecat]

Very cool!

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome! I've never seen that in a species where the sex differences are so clear!

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Wow, awesome! Thank you so much!

I can't click through to the image, and I'd love to be able to refer to it in future.

[brooksmoses]

Copying the image address and pasting it in the URL bar seems to work, but it looks like redbird's icon is just as good -- the full image is no higher resolution; it just has more leaves around the outside of the image.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Snagged now. :)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing we haven't had any like that because I usually tell the cats "There's a mommy cardinal!" "There's a daddy cardinal!"