introducing oposite sex

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RosieB

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We have a 10 year old Leopard female who is very placid and friendly. My son recently got a 7 year old Male Leopard thinking that they would live together. He had to separate them after a few hours as the male was really getting after the female and biting her shell, she was not happy!
Is this a normal behaviour for Leopards or something else. Please advise.
I have Indian Stars and I can mix and match all as I want with no trouble at all.
 

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Well, this is probably normal breeding activity. Male tortoises have to be pretty ornery and persistent in order to get the female to submit to his amorous advances. It helps take some of the stress off the female if you have them outside. If that can't happen, then a very large enclosure with a lot of sight barriers is helpful. After the newness of being with a female has worn off a bit he will settle down some, but this is his life's work...to procreate.
 

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You need a large enclosure with lots of sight barriers and nooks and crannies and another female or two, OR house these two separately and just put them together every once in a whole for breeding and then separate them again. In the wild a lone female would not hang out in the presence of a male for very long by choice.
 

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Thankyou for your taking the time to reply and reassuring us that all is normal here, my son was concerned about damage being caused by his male to my female. He sees my Indian Stars which are quite different and more gentlemanly in their approach!
 
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