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I am looking into purchasing a baby Ambilobe but the owner is a beginner also and doesnt know how to sex the babies. Is there any way to tell their sex aside from going by size and coloration?
Any help would really be appreciated,
Thanks!

You can sex them by looking at the base of the tail....but this is not something that is easy for beginners to do. Sorry.

I can generally tell the sex, by how far the head crest protudes over the head. I don't think I have any photos suitible for explaining how. However I'll do my best with these...

The first photo is a Female. You can almost see how her head crest, does NOT point out farther than her lip. The angle of the photo is bad, but it if were from the side, you would actually see that her lip is farther than the crest.

Now the second photo, you can distinctly see that the crest goes a good length father than the lips. Again, not a great photo because of the white crest and the white background.

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CANADIAN CHAMELEONS

Thanks for all the help, hopefully when I pick out a female we can tell.
Happy New year everyone!

While the extent to which the rostral appendage extends forward of the mouth is a sex difference apparent in juvenile panthers, it is not apparent in "baby" panthers. Neither is the hemipenal bulge in males. IMO, these tell-tale indicators of sex become apparent about he same time as coloration, although it can vary. These identifiers become apparent at about the 3" S-V size, sometimes larger. In all cases, the chameleon would be larger than the "baby" size, which brings me to my point. This 3" or larger S-V size is the safe size to be purchasing a panther, not so much as the sex is apparent, which I realize is an important concern for the buyer, but more so because the animal is more established and able to survive the stress of transport, change of cage, new husbandry, etc., as well as reveal any defects or other health issues that are masked in baby chameleons due their lack of size. Male coloration (or buying the sibling sister of a male showing color) also helps eliminate the possibility of buying a locale mutt. To buy a chameleon that is too small to accurately determine sex is to be buying a chameleon that is too small to be sold, and would be indicative of a hasty seller, hasty buyer, or both ! Patience !

Jim Flaherty
The Chameleon Company