Taldara wrote:
We had a male ostrich at work that was in with a group of 5 others. Male ostrich are very different to females - they have black and white feathers instead of brown and they have a red beak and legs while the females are dull greyish/brown. I remember saying to someone one day that this male was looking a bit strange - as he moulted he was growing in brown feathers. Then he lost all his red. And then he started laying eggs!! Apparently it's not uncommon in birds to be hermaphrodite. Well not as uncommon as in other species anyway.
And this kind of random shit is among the reasons I adore Taldara.

Hmmm, do you think it's because of the relative lack of hindgut/ cloacal differentiation compared to mammals that more of them live to reproduce (can you tell I'm a researcher?)?


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