Just wondering how you tell the gender of a garter.
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Thread: How do you tell male or female
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07-30-2007, 11:08 PM #1Never shed
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How do you tell male or female
I own two Northwestern Garters (T. ordinoides)
One's got white stripes (name: White Lightning) and the other has yellow(Yellow Lightning)
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07-31-2007, 02:01 AM #2"PM Boots For Custom Title"
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Re: How do you tell male or female
sometimes you can tell just by looking at the underside of the tail and how wide it is when it joins the body.
take a picture of the underside of the tail and put it on here and we will have a look to see if we can tell.
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07-31-2007, 08:30 AM #3Never shed
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Re: How do you tell male or female
O.k here's a picture my garter wasn't being too coopertive
I own two Northwestern Garters (T. ordinoides)
One's got white stripes (name: White Lightning) and the other has yellow(Yellow Lightning)
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07-31-2007, 09:31 AM #4Mountaineer
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Re: How do you tell male or female
Not the best pic, but I would say male.
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07-31-2007, 10:25 AM #5Ophiuchus rhea
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Re: How do you tell male or female
not 100% sure because of the angle, but I'd vote for male as well
rhea
"you cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus" Mark Twain
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07-31-2007, 11:27 AM #6Never shed
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Re: How do you tell male or female
Thanks guys i was pretty sure he was male and i just wanted more opinons. If he's male than my other is also
I own two Northwestern Garters (T. ordinoides)
One's got white stripes (name: White Lightning) and the other has yellow(Yellow Lightning)
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08-01-2007, 05:39 AM #7Dutch, bold and Thamnophis-crazy
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Re: How do you tell male or female
This is a drawing one of my kids made...
It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner.
Frank Zappa
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08-01-2007, 06:15 AM #8Basilisk (The King of all Serpents)
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Re: How do you tell male or female
thats pretty good...I really understand exactly what it depics....
umm...is that a bad thing......
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08-01-2007, 10:23 AM #9"PM Boots For Custom Title"
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Re: How do you tell male or female
Looks male to me
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08-01-2007, 05:22 PM #10Dutch, bold and Thamnophis-crazy
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Re: How do you tell male or female
That's a good thing, I think
Originally Posted by enigma200316
thats pretty good...I really understand exactly what it depics....
umm...is that a bad thing......
It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner. Frank Zappa
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