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If a tomcat is ''actually pregnant'', that's [[Mister Seahorse]].
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* ''[[Pit Dragon Chronicles]]'': Jakkin seems to assume that his dragon is male. Most readers are led to believe this too. But the dragon is always referred to as "it" and near the end, Jakkin's master reveals that it's a female.
* Inverted in ''[[Safehold]]''. Archbishop Maikel Staynair has a pet cat-lizard that he didn't find out was male until after he'd named it after his late wife. Fortunately, his wife had the kind of sense of humor that the family figures that she would've been amused by it.
* Played straight in [[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)]]'s short story "The Haunted Space Suit." The protagonist, hearing muffled sounds in his suit halfway through an EVA, begins to believe the suit is haunted by the ghost of a former colleague who may - or may not - have died while wearing it. Halfway through requesting a check on the suit's history, he is reduced to incoherent screaming panic when something ''actually'' pats him on the back of the neck. Turns out the ship's cat, Tommy, is badly misnamed... and had found a very interesting place to have 'his' kittens.
== Live Action TV ==
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{{quote| '''Mr. Lancer:''' ''[in class, reading from an article]'' "Brooding genius, Daniel Fenton did what no other researcher dared to do. He got close enough to this rare purple-back gorilla to realize that Sampson was actually a Delilah." ''[stops, indignant]'' Nobody at that zoo ever bothered to see if it was boy or a girl?<br />
'''Danny:''' ''[shrugs]'' I guess they just wanted to respect her privacy. }}
* In the ''[[Doug]]'' episode "Doug's Fat Cat", Roger forces Doug to look after Stinky, his [[Right
{{quote| '''Doug:''' And now it looks like he's.... he's...<br />
'''Roger's Mom:''' A very proud mother.<br />
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* One episode of ''[[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventures|Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures]]'' featured a rare bird that met its demise (or else escaped) while under the care of our intrepid heroes, causing them to scramble for a replacement. Thanks to their [[MacGuffin|time-travelling phone booth]] they manage to snag one from its country of origin, with a twist. The original was a male bird. The replacement was a female bird. This is discovered when she lays an egg.
* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' had a vet tell Rocko that Spunky is pregnant; however, Rocko ''knows'' Spunky is male. In the end, it turns out that the doctor was just confused.
* On one episode of ''[[Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law]]'', Avenger (a male eagle) lays an egg...except, not really. Confusion sets in, and the explanation gets more and more absurd: the egg was actually Potomus' lunch, which he left under the bird in a split second without being seen, Avenger becomes uber maternal over the egg when he decides he really did lay it himself and pokes Potomus in the eye when he goes for it, then it hatches and the chick is a [[Half
* On one episode of ''[[Spongebob SquarePants]]'', SpongeBob adopts a worm whom he names Mr. Wormsley, but then it turns out it's pregnant. Spongebob spends the rest of the episode trying to find someone to adopt the baby worms.
* One classic ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon had his four nephews adopting a horse (rejected "4F" by the Army), and trying to sneak it into the house. When it looks like Popeye has got past them, and the kids are crying because they're going to lose their pet ... Popeye comes back and says, "Well, kids, I guess we'll have to keep '''her''' now." Cut to closing shot of family around dinner table ... and somehow there are four baby colts, one for each nephew.
* Subverted in the ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Perry Lays an Egg". When the boys find the egg in question (which by the way {{spoiler|was not actually laid by their pet platypus; it fell out of a nest on the tree and landed by Perry's posterior}}), Phineas responds: "Perry laid an egg! You know what this means? ...We're gonna have ''two'' Perrys!"
{{quote| '''Phineas:''' Congratulations, old ''boy,'' [[The Un
* Weird variant from ''[[Family Guy]]'' in the episode "Mind Over Murder" Peter got into an argument with a coarse-looking, hirstute parent at a ball game, and wound up punching this person in the face. Everyone else was horrified that he'd hit a woman, yet Peter refused to believe his victim wasn't male ... but the punch induced labor and she gave birth right there in the bleachers.
* The art book for ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' reveals they once planned to do this with Appa the skybison as part of the ending, after being thought of as the [[Last of Their Kind]].
* It was made quite clear, in "Appa's Lost Days", that Sky Bison have multiple offspring at a time. If the asexual reproduction thing ''doesn't'' work, then [[Parental Incest]] would ''not'' have been the [[Brother
* In an episode of ''[[Detention]]'', Shareena's pet pig is noted to be fatter than usually and seemed to be sick and one day "he" escaped into the school so they spend most of the episode looking for "him" near the end they find the pig in the air vent having given birth to a litter of piglets, Shareena admits up to that point she thought Pig was a boy.
* [[South Park|Cartman's]] cat is named Mr. Kitty, then came the episode [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Cat Orgy]]. Where it goes into heat..
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