I thought I'd post these...
-Alice
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Sexing pics
aliceinwl
Jan 29, 2004 11:36 PM
Replies (3)
paradisio
Jan 29, 2004 11:45 PM
@_@ is the last pic real? Hermaphrodite? Probably infertile if it is right?
aliceinwl
Jan 29, 2004 11:56 PM
The last pic is of Catundra. I purchased her as an adult 8 years ago. I talked to her previous owner and she was at least 2 at the time I purchased her. She bred and produced normally for the 1st 6 years I had her (I still have some of her offspring). Then a couple of years ago I caught her beating up my male and breeding with the females. I now have "her" set up with her own little harem (she has hemipenes now!) but all the eggs produced by her mates are duds.
-Alice
StinaUIUC
Jan 30, 2004 12:04 AM
cool...She didn't get into any testosterone did she?...lol Only way I've heard of a female animal getting male reproductive organs is through androgenization...in other words if an androgen (testosterone) enters their blood stream for a prolonged period of time. They would be infertile, and would have malelike organs...but would still have a female genotype...I wonder if that's what happened with her somehow... Not that I have any idea how testosterone would have gotten in her system. I've never heard of something like that for any reptile.
