since bullfrogs are easily sex by looking at their eardrums, does that mean they can be sexed at just about any age?
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sexing bullfrog at any age?
puffytoad
Jul 06, 2003 02:23 PM
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Colchicine
Jul 06, 2003 09:46 PM
No. Eardrum differences are called a Secondary Sex Characteristic. Much in the same way that the devolopment of breasts and broader hips are for females in humans. Eardrum sizes are relative, and can only be accurately determined when the animal is sexually mature.
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kungfu28181
Jul 06, 2003 10:38 PM
So it would be like...the bigger the eardrum the bigger the boob which means it is a female?
ginevive
Jul 07, 2003 06:14 AM
no, males have bigger eardrums n/p
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truefate
Jul 07, 2003 05:12 PM
the timpanic membrane (aka eardrum) in males is usualy 2 to 3 times the size of the eye
Colchicine
Jul 07, 2003 06:44 AM
>>So it would be like...the bigger the eardrum the bigger the boob which means it is a female?
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*Humans aren't the only species on earth... we just act like it.
".the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without
spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)
ginevive
Jul 07, 2003 06:12 AM
I think you really have to wait until the bullfrog is more mature, like in its second year. When my bullfrog morphed a few years ago, I was convinced it was a female, but throughout the year those ears kept growing, and now I know he is a male.
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