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 4 look like normal sulcata but one looks like a baby leopard tortoise which is no doubt a hybrid. I still have have 16 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 one hybrid that looks like a leopard 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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leopard/sulcata tortoise hybrid question
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I would sure like to know the answer to this question too.People that would know for sure might not read this forum.I'll try to find out the real deal.There is a hybred forum,I'd try there too.Let us know and I'll get back if I find something.VERY INTERESTING and something we must know as breeders.Vic.....pic not me,don't even go there!
Pics please.
My apologies, but where is the hyrid forum?
Its under General Topics H-R has pic of red eyed tree frog.Vic
Todd was kind enough to post my leopard/sulcata tortoise hybrid pictures under the hybrid forum so you can see them there...will be interesting to see what growth pattern and color will come in as they grow and if they will be high domed like the leopard tortoise or flat like the sulcata tortoise???
thank you!
