In Second Nature: Gender and Sexuality in the Animal World , director Drew Denny poses a playful question to audiences: Since clownfish can change sex from male to female, after Nemo’s mom died in Finding Nemo , could his dad simply have become another mom?

Denny knows some viewers likely didn’t learn that tidbit about clownfish in their high school science classes. Or any other number of facts around the science and nature of animal gender and sexuality she manages to pack into the 80-minute film, inspired by evolutionary biologist Dr. Joan Roughgarden’s book, Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People.

In Second Nature: Gender and Sexuality in the Animal World , director Drew Denny poses a playful question to audiences: Since clownfish can change

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