>>Again I agree with MrCota, I have averaged keeping a couple hundred monitors at any given time over a decade and a half. And I rarely and by that I mean very rarely have them evert on their own. Of course they do if I manhandle them. But not on their own, in water or not.
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>> I wonder about this. Understand, several people have mentioned their monitors do this all the time. I just wonder why yours do and mine don't.
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>> Also consider I spend each and every day from sun up, to into the night around these monitors. Hmmmmmmmm Cheers

FR, the everting of the hemipenes during defecation (when most people are observing this) is often the result of a stressful (more than the usual effort) pushing out of the feces (maybe not enough moisture= slight to very slight dehydration?).

The only monitor that I have had evert the hemipenes on its own was my V. prasinus while it was stretching (arching its back down). This resulted in a quick popping out.

Cheers,
Michael

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• Sexual Dimorphism n Young Wat. Monitors? - dberes, Fri Aug 11 13:53:21 2006
• RE: Sexual Dimorphism n Young Wat. Monitors? - mrcota, Sat Aug 12 04:34:34 2006
• RE: Sexual Dimorphism n Young Wat. Monitors? - jburokas, Sun Aug 13 17:14:49 2006
• RE: Hmmmmmmm again - FR, Mon Aug 14 23:29:30 2006
• RE: Hmmmmmmm again - mrcota, Tue Aug 15 04:34:20 2006
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