You know the rule that says if the anal scutes point straight back or inward the tortoise is a female? Well, I took in the exception to that rule last night.
This is what I thought was a male last night in the dark because the gular looks too big to be female:
It was dark when I got the tortoise, so I just put it in a spare warm section and forgot about it.
This a.m. I took the tortoise out and had a look at the underside. The anal scutes point straight back, however, the tail is quite long, reaching over to the back leg, and the plastron is starting to show slight concavity:
The tortoise was kept with another sulcata that was also male, but quite a bit bigger than this one. I'm wondering if fact that the other tortoise was bigger and probably top dog, influenced how this tortoise grew (anal scute wise).
This is what I thought was a male last night in the dark because the gular looks too big to be female:
It was dark when I got the tortoise, so I just put it in a spare warm section and forgot about it.
This a.m. I took the tortoise out and had a look at the underside. The anal scutes point straight back, however, the tail is quite long, reaching over to the back leg, and the plastron is starting to show slight concavity:
The tortoise was kept with another sulcata that was also male, but quite a bit bigger than this one. I'm wondering if fact that the other tortoise was bigger and probably top dog, influenced how this tortoise grew (anal scute wise).