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Female ABT's locking up

twillis10 Jan 03, 2010 09:27 AM

I have 2 female ABT's that I have seen locking up a few times. I am positive they are both females, and they have always seemed to get along great so I don't believe it to be anything aggressive.
-Tyler

Replies (4)

twillis10 Jan 03, 2010 09:28 AM

Ha I meant ATB's.

j3nnay Jan 05, 2010 09:59 AM

By "positive they are both females" does that mean an educated guess or does that mean you probed them both yourself? Someone else probed them?

Mistakes happen. If there's true locking up (which involves everted hemipenes!) then the obvious thing is that one is definately not a female.

~jen
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"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."
- Anna Sewell (1820-1878)

Mike H. Jan 05, 2010 06:37 PM

>>By "positive they are both females" does that mean an educated guess or does that mean you probed them both yourself? Someone else probed them?
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>>Mistakes happen. If there's true locking up (which involves everted hemipenes!) then the obvious thing is that one is definately not a female.
>>

My thoughts exactly.

I've seen males tail wrap each other two different ways - simultaneously tail wrapping each other or just one male tail wrapping the other male, but have never seen a female tail wrap another snake.
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jerryconway Jan 13, 2010 12:01 PM

YOU COULD BE LOOKING AT A NEW MORPH....HET FOR LESBIANISM

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