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leopard/sulcata tortoise HYBRID question

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Posted by: 1snakeman1 at Mon Feb 16 11:59:53 2009  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by 1snakeman1 ]  
   

I have been been breeding sulcatas for awhile and this year my 11 inch male G.p.pardalis leopard tortoise escaped his pen and I found him trying to breed the sulcata females...I quickly put him back in his pen but since I didn't have a female leopard tortoise for him and it was breeding season and him being horny somehow seemed to escape his pen and mount the female sulcatas a I even found him trying to breed one of the adult male sulcatas. Anyway, my sulcata clutches are hatching now and all the babies from each female look normal except one clutch which is hatching now.... There were 21 perfect eggs in this clutch and five have hatched so far and 9 look like sulcatas and 2 look like a baby leopard tortoises which are no doubt hybrids. I still have have 10 eggs to hatch in this clutch so i dont know at this point how many are going to look like leopard tortoises when all said and done.
NOW for the question....I have read that you can have different male parentage in the same clutch so are the babies looking like sulcata 100% sulcata from the sulcata male and the two hybrids that looks like a leopard tortoise is of course from the male leopard. OR are all of the babies hybrids... some looking more like the sulcata mother and the one leopard looking baby looking more like the father?
I would have posted a picture of this neat little hybrid but cant figure out how to post a picture........



   

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