[help] gender

[kekek]

Hello everybody ...
Could you please tell me what their gender is

(1)

-

(2)

both of them 7-8 inch
thank you

 

[mattgrizzlybear]

1. Female
2. Male

 

[kekek]

thank you mattgrizzlybear,

so they are a couple, I'll adopt both of them

 

[Greg T]

Going with the same based on tail size.

1. female
2. male

 

[kekek]

thank you Greg

 

[Levi the Leopard]

2.a male

But I'm not convinced 1.is a female. "To me" I still think it could go either way..

This is IMO.

Heather
Sent from my Android TFO app

 

[theelectraco]

Another vote for female male.


0.1.0 Dachshund
0.0.1 Redfoot
1.0.0 Greek

 

[LeopardTortLover]

1. female
2. male

 

[Neal]

I see two males.

Yeah, the tail is short on the first one, but the supracaudal scute is all male.

 

[Yvonne G]

http://startortoises.net/shell-scutes.html

For those of us who didn't know.

I've always gone by the anal scutes. What do you see in the supracaudal scutes, Neal.

(Incidentally, I was going with male/male too.)

 

[Neal]

It curves inward to protect the tail when copulating and it takes on a more horizontal shape. In this picture, you can see on this male that the supracaudal fits well inside a rectangle shape.

For a female this size, I would expect the supracaudal to have extended further outwards and come to a point like you see in this adult female.

It's been my experience with most tortoises that the anal scutes are some of last sex-indicators to develop, and can sometimes be confusing in leopards like you see in the male in my first picture. I usually start with the tail, then look at the supracaudal when things are not so obvious.

I've been wrong before...but right now I would bet on 2 males.