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As I was walking through my hallway, past the reptile room...

I noticed a PRETTY Baja girl basking, and grabbed the camera, took the shot from across the room.

Shes getting close to laying time.

Chia

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PHEve / Eve

she does have a nice round tummy on her! i hope she lays you lots of eggs!
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***

one female like her,
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PHEve / Eve

well you had better keep those temps lower this time, ha ha. i'd be happy with one like her also
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***

Has been documented in Crotaphytus. I have a friend that kept some prett good records of his hatch ratios and there was no correlation between temps and sex. I know I have seen Dr. Jones says otherwise on his website, but to my knowledge this is just speculation. It is however, well documented in Turtles, Geckos, and crocodilians.

oh wow, is that the webpage that was fancy collared lizards? because i think that is where i read that. i had heard it before and just assumed it was a reptile thing
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***

You'd be interested to know that is works the opposite in some reptiles than others too. Lower temps does not always = higher female ratio. Interesting to note, unless they've re-evaluated the data, leopard geckos would produce mostly females at low temps, then males up to a certain temp...after that, they'd get more females again, but they called these "hot" females. They actually were more aggressive and larger. Most were so aggressive, they would not allow a male to mate with them. Sometimes I think my mother-in-law was in a hot hospital room.

JE

You deserve that, making fun of my spelling last week.

Yeah, I remembered, only because it was YOU, I wrote it down. hahahahhaa

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PHEve / Eve

You know...some people say "mature" and some say "matur." Ha, ha. I know I screwed up, but I said, "oh well."

J

well the way you guys catch and pick on typos, i may just post my masters thesis on here next fall. do you think i could post it as off topic and will it hold 60-80 pages?
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***

I typically don't like to read them either, unless they have something to do with my current hobbies or has interesting photographs.

The hankering to do some heavy reading, to sharpen his mind, LMAO
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PHEve / Eve

lol, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaay off topic. it's how are the new economic reforms enacted during the special period affecting the ideals of the revolution in cuba. the closest tie it has to reptiles is that i thought of the topic while studying in cuba, where i saw some local frogs and lizards.
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***

There are lots of cool herps in Cuba...Please don't forward it to me though. I wouldn't know where to start.

lol, don't worry i won't. i was just picking on the spelling police.
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***