Male bass in northeast experiencing transgender change according to US Geo. survey

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January 5, 2016

A recently published US Geological study, where researchers tested bass near 19 wildlife refuges in the Northeast, revealed that 85% of male smallmouth bass surveyed have “characteristics of the opposite sex”—specifically eggs where their testes should be.

The same is true of 27 percent of area largemouth bass.

Researchers didn’t do a chemical analysis of the water where the intersex fish were found but they suspect that birth control pills, pesticides, hormones in livestock manure, and chemical-heavy products, which are put into drains and end up in US waters may be the cause of the transgender bass surveyed.

 

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