Chicken has spontaneous sex change

A chicken (that is, an actual animal, not a young gay man) has startled scientists by undergoing a natural sex change.

The bird, currently living in India, was laying eggs until recently, but then grew a rooster's comb - that's the bit at the top.

A government vet has confirmed the change, with villagers in Kamat-Chengrabanda, Bengal,  declaring it a miracle.

"Every once in a while you hear a story about a hen that changed into a cock. Such stories are often met with scepticism, but sex reversals do, in fact, occur, although not very frequently,”  vet Partha Sarathi Ghose told AP.

photo: A rooster yesterday.
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