Zoologger: Shrimp plays chicken with its sex change
* 14:34 08 September 2010 by Michael Marshall
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19419-zoologger-shrimp-plays-chicken-with-its-sex-change.html (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19419-zoologger-shrimp-plays-chicken-with-its-sex-change.html)
Species: Lysmata wurdemanni
Habitat: Atlantic coasts of North and South America, and the Gulf of Mexico, having confusing sex
Changing sex is more common than you might think. Many animals start out as one sex, and then change into the other part-way through their lives. There are also plenty of animals that are both male and female at the same time.
But a few go one step further. They start out as one sex, and then transform into hermaphrodites.