Male or Female?
Male or Female?
It may still be a bit early to tell, but I am thinking female? Anyone care to chime in?
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Re: Male or Female?
Hi End and welcome to TheTortoise Table,
What species is the tortoise and how old is it?
I agree that it is probably too early to tell, and many tortoises look female when they are very young. The anal scute has a fairly sharp 'v' shape, which could indicate female in some species but not others. Often the cloaca in a female is asterisk shaped whereas in the male it is slit shaped, and yours looks like it might be slit shaped but that could also be just a fold in the skin of the tail and would need a closer up photo of the underside of the tail to get a better idea. It certainly is a small tail, which would indicate female, but as I said above many species of tortoise (especially Horsfields) have short tails for the first few years and then the males' tails grow long.
Nina
What species is the tortoise and how old is it?
I agree that it is probably too early to tell, and many tortoises look female when they are very young. The anal scute has a fairly sharp 'v' shape, which could indicate female in some species but not others. Often the cloaca in a female is asterisk shaped whereas in the male it is slit shaped, and yours looks like it might be slit shaped but that could also be just a fold in the skin of the tail and would need a closer up photo of the underside of the tail to get a better idea. It certainly is a small tail, which would indicate female, but as I said above many species of tortoise (especially Horsfields) have short tails for the first few years and then the males' tails grow long.
Nina
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