In a long-term ecological monitoring project at Hsiangshan in Hsinchu County, Professor Hung Chu-chang of National Taiwan University's Institute of Oceanography discovered that 90 % of the females of the oyster drill (dogwhelk) species Thais clavigera on the coast there had grown male sex organs in the space of one month.
台大海研所教授洪楚彰在新竹香山的長期生態監測發現，香山海岸的貝類「蚵岩螺」，曾在一個月內出現百分之九十的母螺長出雄性器官。