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Elephant Seals and Cichlids:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123808585000095
http://cetus.ucsd.edu/sio133/PDF/SexualDimorphism.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00302924
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/incredible-elephant-seals-part-1/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4533425?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents
http://behav.zoology.unibe.ch/sysuif/uploads/files/esh/pdf_online/schuetz/Schuetz_JFishBiol2000.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12038-010-0030-6
Moas:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature01871
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2013.0401
Blue and Great Tits:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1690890/pdf/11839194.pdf
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2003.2375
https://www.nature.com/articles/362537a0
Orchids:
http://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2017/12/27/the-extraordinary-catasetum-orchids
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6066067_Sexual_Dimorphism_in_Catasetum_Orchids_Forcible_Pollen_Emplacement_and_Male_Flower_Competition
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003194221500093X
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/2937200
https://www.scielo.sa.cr/pdf/lankesteriana/v16n1/1409-3871-lankesteriana-16-01-00043.pdf
Sticklebacks:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3261870/
https://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/belllab/Bell_Foster_Book/Entire_Book.pdf
Rusty Tussock Moths:
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/medical/tussock_moths.htm
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8665926_Zera_AJ_Denno_RF_Physiology_and_ecology_of_dispersal_polymorphism_in_insects_Annu_Rev_Ent_42_207-230
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-71155-8_3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgyia_antiqua#/media/File:Orgyia_antiqua_MHNT.CUT.2012.0.356.Gières.jpg
Spoon Worms:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3548792?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsiord974221a5ffd9fdc330d1e36624db4b4&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-66069-6_10
https://animalfactsbit.blogspot.com/2017/04/green-spoon-worm-facts-habitat-diet-and.html
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/animal-behaviour/sex-changes-sperm-slaves-ballooning-bodies-spoon-worms-are-really-weird/
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