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Hello again
Would you please post a pic of a cross adult, male and female vent areas for a visual comparison. I would really appreciate it. Thanks...

Please understand, showing some vents will not teach you anything. If you had any idea what you were looking at, you would already know what your monitor is. That is the question isn't it? As of this time, you are not asked. You only asked my opinion on probing monitors.

Truth is, some people can look and tell, even people without experience. I guess its a matter of how you look.

In this picture, there is absolutely no need to "look at vents" The male is a male, he looks like a male, and he looks like all males. In this picture, the female looks like a female and looks like all females. What makes these look like what they are, not only is good for the whole gouldi complex, but also with almost all species of monitor.

I understand that most people cannot see a difference and you may be one of those people. Which is why I will not waste my time is showing pictures of vents.

The only way(i feel confident in) you can learn is by looking at the monitors. So I suggest you go out and look at as many "known" sex monitors as you can. Mostly monitors of the gouldi complex, then any species after that.

What you will see is, difference in eyes, heads, shoulders, hips, general builds, tails, and yes, bulges of all sorts.

With that in mind, what good is pics of a couple of vents, if your serious, learn correctly and go out and get some experience. Then you will not have a need to ask. Its easy.

If your only interest is knowing what sex your one monitor is, post a pic, its possible someone will guess.

You could take the picture below, and ask people what sex they are, people who are not even reptile people, and most would get it right. Good luck FR

My favorite pic. Makes me smile every time.

Hey FR
Well that would be ideal, if there was a place that had adults to compare and learn from. The thing is, most of the locations around here, don't have or know the sex of their monitors. Individual pics don't really help me due to my inexperiance. If I had one to compare it to of equal size, then maybe I would be able to tell. From the pic you posted, it's easy to tell. But I don't have anything to compare it to. I'll do my best. Thanks..

I agree it is hard work to learn everything you can about monitors. Most of us are just hobbyist that enjoy the animals. It would be nice to breed them to recoup some of the expense of owning them, but to do that we have to have good husbandry and both sexes. It makes it that much harder when you cant tell the sex when they are young.

The hobby is fun and very interesting. The majority of us only have 1 or maybe 3 monitors. We don't have access to many monitors of various kinds to see all the differences between them.

I like to keep in mind that this is for enjoyment first and foremost. If I don't ever have any to breed and hatch I am ok with that. I still have my career, my wife, other pets, motorcycles, etc.

Sometimes people on all kinds of forums seem to forget that hobbies are for enjoyment and not necessarily for making money.

BTW. The little savanna I got a week ago ate crickets off tongs for the first time today. It is such a good feeling when they don't hide, but come to you (even just for food). Times like that make all the expense and frustration worth it.
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Ed

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