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at Wed Sep 27 02:16:06 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
Yes to the first question, The he/shes and she/hes, appear mainly when raised in groups. They appear to be individuals that are developmentally surpressed by more dominate individuals. To understand this, you need to understand that most develop secondary characteristics at a small size. The He/shes and S/H's grow very large before they attain secondary characteristics or fail to express secondary characteristics altogehter.
Secondary characteristics are such things has wider hips in females, thicker head and neck in males. The development of enlarged spurs. Internally, the enlargement of the gonads or ovaries.
Strangely, or oddly, we have seen wild caught He/shes. ??????????????????? These are also in literatue. Not labeled as such, but labels as males with atrophied gonads.
The timespan depends of species and clutches. Also, different clutches of the same species can be very different. The first few weeks seem critical, but not exactly restricted to that.
As you think, there needs to be lots of work with this. As you should understand, I know something is going on, but do not have the ability to identify exactly what. I would think a fully equiped lab would be useful. Cheers
And I forget the third question. I will go back in the mourning, Cheers
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RE: A couple questions for FR - FR, Wed Sep 27 02:16:06 2006