Ailurus
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I am trying to find information online on a definitive way to determine the sex of Egernia stokesii. The only methods I have found are:
- Introduce them and see what happens, but seeing as I currently only have one, that is difficult and also it can leave to casualties which I don't really want to happen.
- Blood Tests, I imagine this is expensive.
- Invasive Surgery, which again sounds expensive and also a bit unnecessary.
- I was also told that the spines on males tails face outwards and on females they face backwards, however looking at pictures online they all look pretty similar to me.
If any keepers on here know a good way to determine the gender of this species, please do comment, I would love to find out.
The reasons I ask is first of all to make sure my male is indeed a male. And also to help me sex any animals I pick up at Hamm in September.
Thanks in advance
Tom
- Introduce them and see what happens, but seeing as I currently only have one, that is difficult and also it can leave to casualties which I don't really want to happen.
- Blood Tests, I imagine this is expensive.
- Invasive Surgery, which again sounds expensive and also a bit unnecessary.
- I was also told that the spines on males tails face outwards and on females they face backwards, however looking at pictures online they all look pretty similar to me.
If any keepers on here know a good way to determine the gender of this species, please do comment, I would love to find out.
The reasons I ask is first of all to make sure my male is indeed a male. And also to help me sex any animals I pick up at Hamm in September.
Thanks in advance
Tom