Re: [Re: Feathered topics.]

[dbensen <dbensen@gotnet.net>]

>> Ask anyone who has ever raised barnyard chickens.

Check with an ornithologist for information on what types of birds and
under what conditions.  Keep in mind that with birds, it is the female
(not the male) that is heterozygous for the sex chromosomes.<<

Really?  I did not know that.  I had only heard of fishes and frogs changing sex
(and assumed that other vertibrates could not because of the massive physical
overhaul required, so to speak).  It seems that birds do it, bees do it, even
educated fleas do it, so Chrichton didn't have an excuse.

Dan