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Crash Course Zoology

Reproduction

Crash Course Zoology will take a rapid deep dive into the weird and wonderful biology of animals. Host, wildlife ecologist, and conservation scientist, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant will guide us across the tree of life as we endeavor to answer what makes an animal an animal anyway?

Reproduction

Season 1 Episode 9 | 13m 0s | CC

Sexual reproduction is part of the very definition of what it means to be an animal and as you'll see life has found a variety of methods to pass down genetic information. We explore the differences between sex and gender, and look at sex determination systems, examine how same-sex behavior happens all across the animal kingdom, and live a day-in-the-life of a hermaphroditic clownfish.

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