Fish With Sexy Ears?

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Fish Have Sexy Ears

You can tell when a fish has changed sex just by looking at its ears.

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Furthermore as soon as the new males acquired a harem of females, their ear-stones began to grow much more rapidly and in a different direction than when they were females. And the more females they had, the faster and larger their ‘ears’ grew.

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as soon as the new males acquired a harem of females, their ear-stones began to grow much more rapidly and in a different direction than when they were females. And the more females they had, the faster and larger their ‘ears’ grew.

he team decided to focus on the fishes’ ear stones, or otoliths, which develop through the deposition of daily layers, providing an age-based history of the individual’s growth. They proposed that the process of sex change may effect otolith growth, resulting in formation of an age-specific sex-change signature.

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