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2 Reasons Why “They” is the Best Animal Pronoun

Every species of animal is astonishingly unique — including their sexes

Phoenix Huber
Creatures
Published in
5 min readDec 9, 2020

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Photo by Mylon Ollila on Unsplash

There’s a simple reason I don’t think of nonhumans animals as he’s and she’s.

The sexual dimorphism of a cat or a seahorse is unique. It’s different from the sexual dimorphism of a…

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Phoenix Huber
Creatures

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