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This is my first time using Photobucket, so i'm gonna see how it turns up here:

These are my pictures of my almost 2 foot long southern. Her name is Angel (my sister named her that. We agreed to avoid complications)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v445/xxcolbYxx/IMG_0156.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v445/xxcolbYxx/IMG_0155.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v445/xxcolbYxx/IMG_0154.jpg

Enjoy!

Hello,

Awesome pics of what looks to be a fat, happy lizard. How long have you had her? Can you tell me how you sexed her? I still don't really know good way without probing. Once agin, nice shots.

-Phil

Thanks for looking. I got my southern allit about when school ended....so about june. Great way to rap up a school year =) SHe was laying under a garden hose. One way that i've learned if it is a male/female, is by looking at the cheeks. If it seems to bulge out, then it is a male, if it is smaller, and more "slim" headed, than it is a female. I can say if this is gauranteed, but this is how i've told my alligator lizards apart. Or, if you have a southern alligator lizard, you might want to see if yours laid eggs. Then....it's a female. Mine ended up being duds, since female southerns lay eggs regardless if they were fertilized or not.

So, tell them apart by the muscle mass on their "cheeks." Do you have two or more lizards? Then it might be easier to find out. The cheeks on males will seems to jut out; having a more muscular triangular shaped head. Females have less of this, and their heads seems more petite. Hope this helps!

Great looking al and great pics!

You are exactly right on sexing; I've attached a pic of a pair of als, the male is on the left.

-Alice

Ali I luv that male on the left. Awesome color and shape (to bad not the orginal tail)

David

You can tell that its a femal just by practically looking at the head. It is know way as triangler as males. You can even see it inthe pictures Ali has show us of her S Ali.

David