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Have a great weekend, everyone!

Gynandromorph Gouldian finch possessing female plumage on the left side and male on the right. Described and pictured in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1939. 🏳️‍🌈 🐦 :transgender:

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'Every man & woman is hermaphrodite' (Charles Darwin, c.1838)

My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has now been viewed over 25K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🏳️‍🌈 🐒

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The Diemen Alexander by Marie Hietz has just been released! Set in Hobart, it's SF featuring zoology, comparative anatomy and venture capitalism. It also explores the ethics of human responsibility towards animals, the earth and each other, and the truth that power goes to the person most prepared to wield it.

Described as "Jurassic Park meets ET - in the best possible way.’

https://www.clandestinepress.net/products/the-diemen-alexander

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Another gorgeous image, this one dated 1758, of a doe bearing antlers. :transgender: 🦌 🏳️‍🌈

It's by German painter and engraver Johann Elias Ridinger.

For more 18th-century queer zoology, see https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055.

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Lovely image from 1800 depicting female deer with male-typical characteristics. It's titled 'Mannweiber unter dem Wilde' ('manwoman among the wild game', with thanks to @natureculture for help with the trans!). The title reflects the rampant anthropomorphism of the accompanying article. :transgender: 🦌 🏳️‍🌈

From Taschenbuch für Forst- und Jagdfreunde.

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Pirate spiders ambush prey by tricking them with lines of silk: A species of pirate spider in Costa Rica has a hunting strategy that has never been documented before in any spider
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I'm reading Charles Darwin's barnacle study with a queer eye with a mind towards developing my 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet' . . . but, doing a bit of googling around it, I find that someone on Reddit has already beat me to the core thesis . . . 🤨

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Read about 'Darwin's Closet': https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🐸 🏳️‍🌈 🐒 :transgender: 🦞

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My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has now been viewed over 20K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🏳️‍🌈 🐒

There's now a prequel, 'Bounds of Diversity: Queer Zoology in Europe from Aristotle to John Hunter': https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055 :transgender: 🦞

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Bizarre-Looking Colossus Whale May Have Been Heaviest Animal Ever (Sorry, Blue Whales): “I’ve never seen anything like it,” says a paleontologist not involved in the discovery of a 40-million-year-old fossilized whale
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bizarre-looking-colossus-whale-may-have-been-heaviest-animal-ever-sorry-blue-whales/

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An Ohio zoo staff was shocked when their "male" gorilla gave birth: Zookeepers at an Ohio zoo were dumbfounded when one of their gorillas gave birth, because — somehow — for the last four years they thought the mama gorilla was a male. https://boingboing.net/2023/07/21/an-ohio-zoo-staff-was-shocked-when-their-male-gorilla-gave-birth.html

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Today I'm writing about the first descriptions of toad sex.

Chinese herpetologist Ch’eng-chao Liu, writing in the Peking Natural History Bulletin in 1932, was certainly thorough . . .

#zoology #herpetology #toads #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2023

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