Scientists find surprising sex reversal in Australian birds


FILE PHOTO: Scientists discovered a genetically male kookaburra who was reproductively active. - AFP

SYDNEY: Scientists have documented a surprising rate of sex reversal in wild Australian birds, a phenomenon that could be explained by rising pollution or other environmental triggers.

A study of five common Australian species, including kookaburras, magpies and lorikeets, found around six per cent of birds had the chromosomes of one sex but the reproductive organs of another.

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