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A cartoon illustration of a father bird and mother bee sitting down to talk to their mixed bird-bee child. Caption reads "Son, your mother and I feel you're ready to have the 'talk'."

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[โ€“] cpaq47@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The birds and the bees are both males. They pollinate flowers, which would be the females in the analogy.

Bees have a haplo-diploid sex determinism and birds work with ZW sex chromosomes.

I don't get it either.