i'm a little stumped

[robin]

i will not give you any info to sway your votes but what sex are you seeing here

roughly 10 -12 grams

 

[Stl_Greaser]

Female.

 

[fuzzylogix]

if you picked up an adult leo and saw that you would immediately say female.

 

[Salt4Sam]

Im no expert, but upon looking i would say female.

 

[Grogshla]

female

 

[gothra]

Female, I can't see any pores.

 

[Northstar Herp]

I'd vote female if you held a gun to my head and said "vote!".

 

[Jordan]

yup id say female...

 

[JordanAng420]

I'd vote female too.

But it's Robin. So this must be a trick question. Hmmm.:main_robin: :main_robin:

 

[Enigmatic_Reptiles]

Female...but you probably have some tricks up your sleeve so were wrong haha.

 

[robin]

no trick question today. here goes the info TSM about 10-12 (maybe a gram or two more) grams. looks female to me, russ says looks kinda male to him. i wanted to get others opinions. i dont see any pores but the area where the hempenal bulges are looks kind of bigger than normal. bulgy female? i so dont want hemipenes!

 

[tlbowling]

I'd vote female too, but what are those holes where the hemipenes would be, never saw that before? I thought it was a trick and you were going to say a male with a vasectomy :main_laugh:

 

[Enigmatic_Reptiles]

Well I would assume bulgy female then.

 

[TripleALeos]

I know this is a way off comparison but here goes..lol.. Growing up in TX and being around and raising cattle, I have seen a couple hermaphrodites. It is a very rare occurrence in cattle, as well as humans. I am pretty sure that it could happen with leopard geckos. I mean why not, it can happen to everything else..lol.. Just throwing that out there.. Who knows, I could be WAY off.. But you have to remember, its not always just "boy or girl".. Sometimes in nature, its both in one package.. Being that the gecko shows no anal pores but shows hypenial bulge "holes". Could just be a bulgy female or a male whos anal pores havent showed quite yet.. Could be you have the first captive bred hermaphrodite leopard gecko..lol.. I guess time will tell..

Mod note: This post has been copied to a new thread and all discussion of hermaphrodites that followed has been moved there. Hermaphrodite Geckos?
Tony

 

[Mel&Keith]

Ask again in a few weeks and I'll vote. LOL

 

[spykerherps]

F

 

[JordanAng420]

I'd vote female too, but what are those holes where the hemipenes would be, never saw that before? :main_laugh:

I've checked both my proven females and proven males, and BOTH sexes have the "holes". So that is not an accurate determination of sex.

 

[prettyinpink]

I've checked both my proven females and proven males, and BOTH sexes have the "holes". So that is not an accurate determination of sex.

What are these holes for? Meaning, what do they mean?

 

[Dog Shrink]

Awesome.. I would love to see that.. Very interesting how nature can throw curve balls at times..

That's not nature tho, this is selective breeding so it is creation on OUR terms not natures.

To the OP... my inexperienced eye for some reason says male. I was under the impression that seeing pores there indicated (or at least pointed towards) male, but like Maia said both sexes have pores so...

 

[Northstar Herp]

That's not nature tho, this is selective breeding so it is creation on OUR terms not natures.

To the OP... my inexperienced eye for some reason says male. I was under the impression that seeing pores there indicated (or at least pointed towards) male, but like Maia said both sexes have pores so...

The "holes" that Maia is talking about are the two below the vent on the sides of the tail.

Pores are a male thing, plain and simple. What is not so simple is us identifying whether they are really pores or not.

To the hermaphrodite thing... wasn't there something in Tremper's book about a side-by-side split gecko? I'm gonna try to find it and report back. Everybody hang on...