Did you know that clown fish change genders during their life? This is what happens (yes, I know that it sounds super creepy and weird, but it happens) all clown fish are born as males, but the most dominant male chases all the other males away. His body goes through this weird thing called “protandry”, where he becomes a female. Ok, now she lays a bunch of eggs in an anemone and chases a male into the anemone to babysit them.
If the “mom” dies then the male who was babysitting the eggs actually goes through the exact same thing that the first fish went through, and becomes a female, therefore a new “mom” to the eggs. This is super weird! Tell me in the comments box if you already knew this!
Yeah, I sort of knew that.
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ok, i guess that it was just me that didn’t know then. lol! 🙂
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i just found it out yesterday due to YouTube video XD
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Who was it by?
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Oh it wasn’t specifically about Clownfish, the vid was called top 10 shocking facts about Disney, by Top10Amazing Facts.
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I did not know this. Weird. I hope it does not happen to me, because I am such a clown! Grandap
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🙂 lol
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I didn’t know that! That’s kinda creep!
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Yeah! 🙂
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I knew this as well, and I think there is a particular crab that can change its gender too…I forgot its name, I’ll need to look it up.
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Yeah, i guess that a whole bunch of fish can do it. It seems so weird!
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I looked it up and the crab actually gets a parasite that turns them female. Yes, nature can be weird.
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Wow, that is gross!
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