{"id":6693,"date":"2024-10-30T09:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T09:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guardna.wpenginepowered.com\/sexual-dimorphism\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:56:22","slug":"sexual-dimorphism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/sexual-dimorphism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual dimorphism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Phenomenon in which males and females of the same species have a significant difference in appearance. These differences can be in the overall size, shape, colour, or even the presence of different organs (like the nasal sacs of hooded seals).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sexual-dimorphism_Fernando-Ugarte-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2560px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2560\/1717;width:500px;height:auto\" class=\"center lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\" style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: center;\">Sexual dimorphism in killer whales. Longer dorsal fin of male compared to female \u00a9 Fernando Ugarte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phenomenon in which males and females of the same species have a significant difference in appearance. These differences can be in the overall size, shape, colour, or even the presence of different organs (like the nasal sacs of hooded seals). Sexual dimorphism in killer whales. Longer dorsal fin of male compared to female \u00a9 Fernando [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,127,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-15-years-kl-gl","category-glossary-kl-gl","category-s-kl-gl"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Marina Metic","author_link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/author\/marinam\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}