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To: yard_man who wrote (243512)	6/2/2003 3:21:22 PM
From: MythMan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Nemo? Hmmm...you must have young tips at home....

To: yard_man who wrote (243512)	6/2/2003 3:21:35 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Nemo is a clownfish. -g-

To: yard_man who wrote (243512)	7/9/2003 10:09:16 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

' Popular Clownfish Can Change Sex, Size Wed Jul 9, 4:28 PM ET By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, AP Science Writer Scientists could have written an R-rated, gender-bending plot twist to Disney's "Finding Nemo": Clownfish have a natural ability to change their sex. Clownfish, the aquarium pet of choice since the release of the animated movie, live in such a rigid social structure in the wild that if one of the dominant breeding adults is removed, the size, status and even sex of the other clownfish change rapidly to return the group to the status quo. "If the female of the group dies, the male changes sex and becomes the breeding female," said Cornell University evolutionary biologist Peter Buston, "while the largest non-breeder becomes the breeding male." Some other species of fish are known to do the same thing. The study of the exotic reef dwellers, named for their outrageous colors, appears in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. Buston observed 97 groups of clownfish living on reefs in Papua New Guinea. Buston did not address how the fish change sex. ' story.news.yahoo.com