Hermaphroditic Animals and Hybridity
For example Clown Fish
![Clown Fish](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/clown-fish.jpg)
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Similarly but different the female Wrasse fish are known to swap genders when the dominant male dies or is killed; which takes approximately two weeks.
![Animals That Can Change Gender](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Thalassoma-lunare.jpg)
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The Banana Slug is known of having both female and male genitalia at the same time.
![Banana Slug](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/banana-slugs.jpg)
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Unlike Clown Fish and Wrasse fish the Banana Slug has, on rare occasion, been known to impregnate itself, meaning it has mated with itself.
This idea of hybridity through gender conveys the ways in which animals have evolved to keep their species alive and thriving in their own environments.
- Ella Howe
Kelly, E, (2016), '10 Sex-Changing Animals That Don't Conform To Gender Roles', All Thats Interesting, 16 July 2016. Available at:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/sequential-hermaphrodotism-sex-changing-animals (Accessed 11 October 2018).