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RE: Female ABT's locking up

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Posted by: Mike H. at Tue Jan 5 18:37:41 2010  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Mike H. ]  
   

>>By "positive they are both females" does that mean an educated guess or does that mean you probed them both yourself? Someone else probed them?
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>>Mistakes happen. If there's true locking up (which involves everted hemipenes!) then the obvious thing is that one is definately not a female.
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My thoughts exactly.

I've seen males tail wrap each other two different ways - simultaneously tail wrapping each other or just one male tail wrapping the other male, but have never seen a female tail wrap another snake.
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