Brian Vastag on Nostr: Happy #pride month from the stoplight parrotfish. They're born both male and female ...

Happy #pride month from the stoplight parrotfish. They're born both male and female but often a female will become male if there aren't enough males around. And some of those males become...SUPERMALE and grow large while maintaining a reproducing harem. Three sexes for these (fabulously colored) transexual fish. I love seeing them on the reef ...they also munch coral with their beaks and produce much of the sand on the world's beaches.

#fish #oceans #reef