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** There's also the {{spoiler|apparently female-only deer-like creatures that are impregnated by the grass-like male half of the species}}. The xenobiologists spend half the book puzzled over evidence of genetic exchange (which implies the species don't reproduce by parthenogenesis like some [[wikipedia:Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizard|earth species]] do), yet without any apparent presence of males.
*** This is all a relatively recent development from an evolutionary standpoint, caused by {{spoiler|the Descolada, a highly-adaptable virus that literally unravels DNA strands. The only things that can survive it are those who have adapted to use it}}.
* The Tralfamadorians from [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' claim that humans have seven sexes, cases of [[Unreliable Narrator]] notwithstanding—likely because they can see through time as well as space. Some of the "sexes" they recognize are "male homosexuals", "women over sixty-five" and "baby".
* In David Brin's ''[[Uplift Storm]]'' trilogy, male urs are much smaller than females, and generally less intelligent (though sentient; a male urs is a secondary character in the series). Females have pouches to carry their mate around.
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* In ''[[The Steerswoman]]'' series, female demons are tall, spray acid from under their arms, and can make sculptures (out of a wax-like substance that their bodies produce). Male demons are much shorter and cannot make these sculptures. {{spoiler|Since these sculptures are how demons communicate, this is a major social barrier.}}
* ''[[Retief]]'': In ''Retief and the Pan-Galactic Pageant of Pulchritude'', an alien comments to [[Ambadassador|Retief]] on the 'remarkable sexual dimorphism' of Terrans, after Retief slips a ringer into the titular beauty pageant: {{spoiler|a female Bengal tiger}}. The alien is apparently used to sexual dimorphorphisms extreme enough to make this plausible, and doesn't notice the difference between human males and females, except to suggest that the human with the large protrusions on his (actually 'her') upper thorax might want to see a doctor about it.
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