History Main / AnimalGenderBender

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---> '''Hathi''': "What? A female leading my herd? That's utterly preposterous!"
** King Louie is drawn without flanges or floppy cheekpads making him look more like a female orangutan.

* The elephant herd in ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' shows all the adults brandishing tusks of varying lengths. In elephant society, females form herds and take care of the calves, while adult bulls live alone or in bachelor groups, and play no part in raising the calves. But in the Asian elephant, only the males have tusks, while females are usually tuskless; sometimes small tusks (called tushes) may grow, but these are very small and usually only visible when the mouth is open. Which means that the elephants in the movie are all bulls, accompanied by a calf that is probably still too young to be weaned - a very odd combination. Alternatively, the elephants are a mixed-sex herd, with the short-tusked ones being females. Upon closer inspection, the elephants appear to be modeled off of African Elephants, which do have females with tusks, but this also raises the question of why an African species is present in a Western Asian setting--especially since every other animal in the movie is from India.

* ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite 2'': One of the options for [[AGodIsYou your]] {{Bond Creature|s}} is a cow that's referred to as male.

* Pajuna from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'' is a female bull.

* A UsefulNotes/{{Furry|Fandom}} Advertising/{{Orangina}} ad, like the Marshall's ad above, had the [[PeacockGirl female "peacocks"]] with trains. Though that was not the only thing weird about that commercial.
* An [=OXFAM=] America [=OXFAM=] Gifts commercial featured a male goat with an udder.

* Played with in ''Roomies'' (not [[Webcomic/{{Roomies}} the David Willis one) where the kangaroo game developer reveals her gender to her co-worker by pointing out that "he" has a pouch.

* Played with in ''Webcomic/{{Roomies}}'' where the kangaroo game developer reveals her gender to her co-worker by pointing out that "he" has a pouch.

** The fourteenth movie, however, plays this straight with Etta, a female ''Pteranodon'' who is both tall and long-crested like a male.

* ''Webcomic/LitterboxComics'' has devoted a couple of strips to pointing out that it's ''possible'' to have a calico tom and a ginger queen. And also that these are talking, bipedal cats who wear clothes, so if you're going to insist on zoological accuracy...

* Abused quite a bit in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hero108}}''. For example, in Peacock Castle the team face off against a mesmerizing yet vain peacock queen. She and all her entourage are presented with the spectacular plumage of the male, but are all depicted as females; only males have colorful tails, in order to attract mates. In addition, Sheep Castle's leader has horns but is presented as female.

* Averted in ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' with the cat Shamisen: he's a male calico because of his XXY chromosomes, and the rarity of such a cat is commented on by the characters when they find him.

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': Daffy's SpiritualSuccessor, Plucky Duck is also a drake with an orange bill.

* Averted in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' with the cat Shamisen: he's a male calico because of his XXY chromosomes, and the rarity of such a cat is commented on by the characters when they find him.

* Abused quite a bit in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hero108}}''. For example, in Peacock Castle the team face off against a mesmerizing yet vain peacock queen. She and all her entourage are presented with the spectacular plumage of the male, but are all depicted as females; only males colorful tails, in order to attract mates. In addition, Sheep Castle's leader has horns but is presented as female.

** Sasha is a blue rabbit villager with a hairstyle and eyelashes that give him a feminine look and caused some confusion when he was revealed.

* In ''ComicBook/GrimmFairyTales'' #54 (as pictured above), Sela saves a pair of ducks (''Anas platyrhynchos'') from The Horde, one of which is badly injured. Her companion explains that "they mate for life" and that the male would never leave the female. 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 iconic green head. Plus, even if they got that right, [[ArtisticLicenseOrnithology mallards don't mate for life]]... and are actually infamous for [[MemeticRapist another thing]].

* The rarity of tortoiseshell toms is noted in ''Fanfic/LittleFires''. The protagonist, Emberpaw, is heavily implied to be an intersex tortoiseshell. She's also [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} female identified]]. Emberpaw is a [[OlderThanTheyLook scrawny]], [[IllGirl sickly]] cat because of the fact she's a tortoiseshell.

** Sasha is a blue rabbit villager with a hairstyle and eyelashes that give him a feminine look and caused some confusion when he was revealed.

** 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!

** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Black & White]]'' play this straight and subvert it with Sawsbuck, a deer Pokémon. It's played straight in that both genders have antlers all year around, but subverted for the females, as female reindeer in real life do grow antlers during the winter.
*** Also played straight for Stantler, where both genders have antlers.
** Downplayed with Pyroar, a fire lion Pokemon: the males have manes resembling real-life male lions, while the female does have a mane as well, though it takes the form of a long fiery wisp atop her head and her neck is appropriately bare like an actual lioness.
** Played straight with Luxray, the female has a ''slightly'' shorter mane than the male but is otherwise fully maned.

** As gender differences were not introduced in Generations I and II, the older anime episodes could be considered an in-universe example of this (most notably Doduo and Dodrio: originally Doduo had black necks and Dodrio beige, but later generations show male Doduo and Dodrio both with black necks while both females had brown).
** Another in-universe example with the [[PinkIsFeminine Pink Butterfree]] that Ash's Butterfree courted: while pink, it had the wing patterns of the male Butterfree.

* Glimmer the Anglerfish from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'' had the same mistake as Lord Woo Fak Fak above, being male when only female anglerfish are that size or shape.