{"id":21444,"date":"2019-02-12T01:02:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T09:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=21444"},"modified":"2019-02-11T18:33:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T02:33:15","slug":"half-female-half-male-cardinal-spotted-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2019\/02\/12\/half-female-half-male-cardinal-spotted-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-female, half-male cardinal spotted in the wild!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exclusive Video Reveals Half-Male, Half-Female Cardinal | Nat Geo Wild\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_hYOk8lPCZA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>This is incredible! In Erie, Pennsylvania, a rare half-female, half-male cardinal was spotted!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21447\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-by-Shirley-Caldwell-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-by-Shirley-Caldwell-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-by-Shirley-Caldwell-1-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-by-Shirley-Caldwell-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-by-Shirley-Caldwell-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/09\/science\/cardinal-sex-gender.html\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> reports on the special bird<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">A bird hopping outside the window lately is the strangest that Shirley and Jeffrey Caldwell have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Its left side is the taupe shade of female cardinals; its right, the signature scarlet of males.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Researchers believe that the cardinal frequenting the Caldwells\u2019 bird feeder in Erie, Pa., is a rare bilateral gynandromorph, half male and half female. Not much is known about the unusual phenomenon, but this sexual split has been reported among birds, reptiles, butterflies and crustaceans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">No one can be sure the bird is a gynandromorph without analyzing its genes with a blood test or necroscopy, but the split in plumage down the middle is characteristic of the rare event, according to Daniel Hooper, an evolutionary biologist at the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Cool, huh?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=13503-20&l=alb&o=1&a=B00B98BFCO\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" alt=\"\" style=\"position: fixed !important; bottom: -1px !important; right: -1px !important; border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=13503-20&l=alb&o=1&a=B00F8MAKV4\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" alt=\"\" style=\"position: fixed !important; bottom: -1px !important; right: -1px !important; border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=13503-20&l=alb&o=1&a=B007UZ8RBC\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" alt=\"\" style=\"position: fixed !important; bottom: -1px !important; right: -1px !important; border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><!-- A 2x5 Grid Template Layout. It can be configured by the two input fields below --><br \/>\n <!--Section tag for iterating through the list of items--><\/p>\n<div class=\"aalb-pg-ad-unit\" id=\"aalb-B00B98BFCO-B00F8MAKV4-B007UZ8RBC-US-13503-20-ProductGrid\">\n<h2 class=\"aalb-pg-ad-header\">Products from Amazon.com<\/h2>\n<p> <!-- Title of the ad localized according to the marketplace picked from the AalbHeader tag --><\/p>\n<div class=\"aalb-pg-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"aalb-pg-product-container\">\n<ul class=\"aalb-pg-product-list\">\n                  <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>via <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/nagonthelake.blogspot.com\/2019\/02\/uncommon-half-male-half-female-cardinal.html\">Nag on the Lake<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Photo by Shirley Caldwell<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is incredible! In Erie, Pennsylvania, a rare half-female, half-male cardinal was spotted!! The New York Times reports on the special bird: A bird hopping outside the window lately is the strangest that Shirley and Jeffrey Caldwell have ever seen. 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