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Anyone have a picture of their baby panther's tail? Trying to sex my cham cause the more I look at it the more it looks more like a female when I thought it was a male. I can't call it Jack if its a her! She/he kind of looks like the picture below, but that is a female chameleon paradise is selling. When I try to take a picture she gets really aggresive and the bands because really vivid with a maroon coloration. I don't know if that helps, she/he also has sky blue on her/his cheeks and along side of her/his body. I read a similar post from jeffrey, I was wondering if your friend looked similar to the picture below.

P.S. The tail of my cham near the base has a stretchy thin layer of skin that extends from her/'his butt to a little up the tail that makes the base of her tail have more width then the rest of her tail. It kind of looks like a "slot" for a hemipenal that is empty, LOL! Does that mean it just hasn't developed yet?

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Edited on March 27, 2005 at 20:05:06 by phwyvern.

Can't really see the bulge in that picture...do you have another shot. Also, what type of panther is it or told it was?
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Thats not my panther, its a picture that has the same coloration as mine. I don't have the cable for my digital camera =(. Its a ambilobe. From what I can see I dont think there is a hemipenal bulge, but I may be wrong. The "extra skin" I talked about on the tail may very well be it. I don't know how to descrbie it, but it looks like a musle underneath the tail, but it isnt a bulge. Read the P.S. in the first post.

Here is a tail shot of my adult Nosey Be. You can clearly see his "bulge". Yours will not be as pronounced but you should definitely be able to see it if it's a male.

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I'd bet a coupla bucks that your chameleon is a female. eventhough the general belief is that you can't really tell a baby's sex by looking at it,but... I've raised quite a few babies myself, and this one definately looks liek a female.

I'm not an expert on panther sexing, but wanted to remind you that your cham can't hear its name...it will only matter to you whether it is Jack or Jill! ;O No law against changing the name later...cham won't care a bit.

yeah, I had a male rabbit named Suzy, a female cat named Rochester (Jack Benny Show for any other ol' timers ) and a male parakeet named Pretty Boy
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