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---> '''Hathi''': "What? A female leacing my herd? That's utterly preposterous!"

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---> '''Hathi''': "What? A female leacing leading my herd? That's utterly preposterous!"

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** Similarly, [[ButtMonkey Waspinator]] from ''BeastWars'' despite being male, actually transforms into a ''female'' wasp.


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* Margaret from ''RegularShow'' is a female cardinal with a male cardinal's colors.
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** Yes it is, it's called ''Cubone''.
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* Averted in ''{{Pokemon}}'' where the kangaroo-like Kangaskhan is [[OneGenderRace an all-female species]]. However, Kangaskhan for some reason, is always born with a joey in her pouch, and the joey is not a separate species!
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** This was also lampshaded toward the end, when Colonel Hathi is deciding whether or not he will help Baloo and Bagheera rescue Mowgli from Shere Khan. When Hathi refuses, his wife Winifred threatens him that if he does not help find Mowgli, then she will kick him out and take over the herd. Hathi's response:
---> '''Hathi''': "What? A female leacing my herd? That's utterly preposterous!"
** This is also true with an earlier animated work called ''Goliath II''.
** However, the only animated Disney film to actually portray elephants as being led by females (just like in real life) was ''{{Dumbo}}''.


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* ''FindingNemo'' is apparantly about a father clownfish's journey to rescue his kidnapped son, Nemo. According to the film's prologue, the father clownfish is constantly worried about his son's survival because of his wife and all the other eggs being killed by a barracuda. In real life, all clownfish are born male, but [[GenderBender turn female if the dominant female dies.]]
* The main villain of Disney's ''Disney/RobinHood'' is a male lion without a mane.
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* In ''Grimm Fairy Tales'' #54, Sela saves a pair of ducks (''anat platrhynchos'') from The Horde, one of them is badly injured. Her companion explains referring to the ducks, that "they mate for life, he would never leave her." Unfortunately, both ducks are male as their green heads show. In mallards, the females are brown with some colorful strips, but only male ducks have the green head.
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* Peahens with peacock colors have occasionally been reported. Supposedly, they may actually change gender, as do chickens sometimes.

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* Peahens with peacock colors have occasionally been reported. Supposedly, they may actually change gender, as do chickens sometimes.
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* A puzzle in ''Sam And Max: The Devil's Playhouse: The City That Dares Not Sleep'' involves getting a chicken to lay an egg. The chicken is male. Lampshade hung in that he points this out, but agrees to lay an egg for Sam anyway.
** Max Imp is supposed to 'skitter inside the sinus cavities of humans to lay his terrible eggs'.
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* In a recent commercial for Safeway a peacock Christmas tree ortament speaks with an old lady's voice.
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** Adding onto that, most of the games contain chickens who lay fertilized eggs and crow like a rooster while sitting on said eggs.
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**** So Santa is messing around with his reindeer's sexual identity? (For ''aesthetic purposes?'')
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** And in another episode, when Jade is infused with the powers of all the talismans, she uses the monkey talisman briefly to become a male lion.
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This leads to a lot of ViewerGenderConfusion when you see male "cows" with udders, female "peacocks" with trains, male kangaroos with pouches, red female cardinals, does with antlers, lionesses with manes, blood-drinking male mosquitoes, and so on. Barring the theory that perhaps these characters are meant to be [[GenderBender transvestites]], we have to assume they DidNotDoTheResearch.

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This leads to a lot of ViewerGenderConfusion when you see male "cows" with udders, [[PeacockGirl female "peacocks" with trains, trains]], male kangaroos with pouches, red female cardinals, does with antlers, lionesses with manes, blood-drinking male mosquitoes, and so on. Barring the theory that perhaps these characters are meant to be [[GenderBender transvestites]], we have to assume they DidNotDoTheResearch.
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** Something similar showed up in a Marshall's ad with a fashion designer with a bunch of ''female'' models with [[PeacockGirl fake peacock trains]].

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** Something similar showed up in a Marshall's ad with a fashion designer with a bunch of ''female'' models with [[PeacockGirl fake peacock trains]].
trains]]. Then again if they didn't, [[RuleOfPerception how could you tell they were peacocks?]]
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* On the other hand, ''RockosModernLife'' [[InsistentTerminology makes a point]] to correct anyone who calls Heffer a cow. He's a steer.
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* ''BackAtTheBarnyard'' is infamous for this as it has a level of confusion somewhere between bizarre and {{Squick}}. Its hero is a male cow. Let us be absolutely clear on this. We did NOT say or mean "Male Cattle". We did NOT say "Bull", and no we did NOT make the mistake of confusing the word "Cow" with the word for the entire species. We said Male Cow. ''He's got udders!'' (That's the equivalent of a man with tits!) Made worse by the fact that at the end, his girlfriend has a calf, and he clearly says it's a boy, even though the kid's got udders too. What makes all this REALLY odd, though, was that in one episode of the TV series, he becomes a wrestler, and fights a BULL! An actual, fully male bull with dark fur, a big chest, large horns, and a nose ring. Just when you get used to the idea that we're in a universe where ALL the cattle have udders, he's wrestling a fully male bull!

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* ''BackAtTheBarnyard'' is infamous for this as it has a level of confusion somewhere between bizarre and {{Squick}}. Its hero is a male cow. Let us be absolutely clear on this. We did NOT say or mean "Male Cattle". We did NOT say "Bull", and no we did NOT make the mistake of confusing the word "Cow" with the word for the entire species. We said Male Cow. ''He's got udders!'' (That's the equivalent of a man with tits!) tits! [[hottip:*:and who isn't 300 pounds]]) Made worse by the fact that at the end, his girlfriend has a calf, and he clearly says it's a boy, even though the kid's got udders too. What makes all this REALLY odd, though, was that in one episode of the TV series, he becomes a wrestler, and fights a BULL! An actual, fully male bull with dark fur, a big chest, large horns, and a nose ring. Just when you get used to the idea that we're in a universe where ALL the cattle have udders, he's wrestling a fully male bull!
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* in ''Prince of Persia'' the guy arranging the ostrich races repeatedly refers to them and the only ostrich left later in the movie as "she", however, all the shown ostriches are male.
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** Also note that "yoshi" is both the name of the character and the name of the species; some of the egg-laying yoshis could easily be female.
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* ''ParappaTheRapper'' had a female moose with antlers. When this was pointed out to the creator, he said that he was fine with people considering her a transexual if they wished.

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* ''ParappaTheRapper'' had a female moose with antlers. When this was pointed out to the creator, he said that he was [[SureWhyNot fine with with]] people considering her a transexual transsexual if they wished.
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Saying that all anglerfish have extreme sexual dimorphism is just plain incorrect

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** However, this is more forgivable than most of the mistakes on this page -- not all anglerfish are so strongly sexually dimorphic, just the ones most prominent in pop culture.
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* The 2009 remake of Shimajiro, a Japanese educational show about a little tiger boy, averts this. In the toilet training episode, a kangaroo superhero shows up to help teach Shimajiro learn to use the toilet, and brings his son along with him; because he's specifically a male kangaroo, he has to wear a separate pouch so he can carry the joey while leaving his hands free.
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* The 1998 remake of Dr. Dolittle, where a female voice is coming out of a male pigeon. Female pigeon's are not as colorful as their male counterparts.

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* The 1998 remake of Dr. Dolittle, where a female voice is coming out of a male pigeon. Female pigeon's pigeons are not as colorful as their male counterparts.
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** Otis might be a Transgender or a Transsexual cow. Same with the "female" bull.
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** Their tails are covered with vanishing paint that just won't come off! The cowards, trying to trick people into WouldNotHitAGirl scenarios!

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** [[WildMassGuessing Their tails are covered with vanishing paint that just won't come off! off!]] The cowards, trying to trick people into WouldNotHitAGirl scenarios!

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* Chip and Dale, from the ClassicDisneyShorts and ''ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'', have very short tails. Male chipmunks have long tails, often as long as the rest of their bodies. That's right, Donald's been picking on a pair of little girls this whole time!

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* Chip and Dale, from the ClassicDisneyShorts and ''ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'', have very short tails. Male chipmunks have long tails, often as long as the rest of their bodies. That's right, Donald's DonaldDuck's been picking on a pair of little girls this whole time!time!
** Their tails are covered with vanishing paint that just won't come off! The cowards, trying to trick people into WouldNotHitAGirl scenarios!
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* Abused quite a bit in Hero 108, especially in "Peacock Castle" where the team face off against a mesmerizing yet vain peacock QUEEN and in "Sheep Castle" where the sheep leader has horns but is female.

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* Abused quite a bit in Hero 108, especially 108. For example, in "Peacock Castle" where the team face off against a mesmerizing yet vain peacock QUEEN queen. She and all her brethren are presented with the spectacular plumage of the male, but are all depicted as females (coupled with the fact that there are no plain peafowl present also suggest that they are all hermaphodites). Also in "Sheep Castle" where the sheep leader has horns but is presented as female.
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* Abused quite a bit in Hero 108, especially in "Peacock Castle" where the team face off against a mesmerizing yet vain peacock QUEEN and in "Sheep Castle" where the sheep leader has horns but is female.

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