Leucistic animals happen naturally all the time. The reason there are so few is because they get eaten pretty quickly.
Although the mutation can be intentionally bred for, it likely isn’t what happened here. It’s a gator farm, and if you mass produce any animal you’re going to eventually see interesting color variations pop up.
I dunno about you, but I want more pinkish-white gators. Perfect valentine’s day gift for your Floridian girl/boyfriend. Because they’re pink and they’re white, they make great wedding gifts too!
Not just may, does. It’s less species to hop to, but smaller genetic pools mean that within a species it’s more likely to spread with less immune response, or has less to mutate against.
If it’s like the chicken I read about previously, it’s literally half one, half the other, as if you split two birds in half lengthwise and mixed up the pairing when you put them back together.
Professor Spencer says gynandromorphs – animals with both male and female characteristics in a species that usually have separate sexes – are important for our understanding of sex determination and sexual behaviour in birds.
The main groups in which the phenomenon has been recorded include animal species which feature strong sexual dimorphism; most often insects, especially butterflies, crustaceans, spiders, even lizards and rodents.
“This particular example of bilateral gynandromorphy – male one side and female the other – shows that, as in several other species, either side of the bird can be male or female.
“The phenomenon arises from an error during female cell division to produce an egg, followed by double-fertilization by two sperm,” he explains.
Probably a shitty combo of the daiichi discharge with climate change warming waters and fucking up marine ecosystems. In a healthier ecosystem the fishery mightve been more resilient but having both happen probably means the animals and plants that live there can’t handle perturbations and any small change in pollution anymore.
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