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Follow-up Question to Metabolic Bone Disease

footlonglizard Aug 17, 2005 10:18 PM

As I previously posted in another thread, I had a leo that had MBD when it was a baby and i fixed it from getting worse but didnt fix what already happened (slight permenant bend in the limb). The Leo is an Albino Male, and I tried breeding him for the first time. He was all over it, wanted to get it on. But it seemed like the female didnt want anything to do with it. I put her in with another male and the deed was done, so it wasnt the female, she was almost being picky.

The question is, when mating leopard geckos, do you think that the rule survival of the fittest exists? The only thing I can think of is that she noticed the limbs and didnt want to do it?

It could very well be over them, but all animals have that type of thinking in the back of their head.

Any other thoughts?

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milwaukeereptile Aug 18, 2005 12:11 PM

>>As I previously posted in another thread, I had a leo that had MBD when it was a baby and i fixed it from getting worse but didnt fix what already happened (slight permenant bend in the limb). The Leo is an Albino Male, and I tried breeding him for the first time. He was all over it, wanted to get it on. But it seemed like the female didnt want anything to do with it. I put her in with another male and the deed was done, so it wasnt the female, she was almost being picky.
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>>The question is, when mating leopard geckos, do you think that the rule survival of the fittest exists? The only thing I can think of is that she noticed the limbs and didnt want to do it?
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>>It could very well be over them, but all animals have that type of thinking in the back of their head.
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>>Any other thoughts?

More likely it's just that she wasn't in the mood. If you put her in the male's cage, she may have been getting used to the cage instead. I don't beleive they care at all what the other one looks like. They wouldn't really have to worry about it in the wild, and leos generally don't have thinking that complex.
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