MY TEGU!

Anthony · Honored Member Joined: Apr 13, 2006 Posts: 151

Alright let me ask this. You people seem to think my tegu is a female. Which is fine by me. I love him/her either way. However, I just noticed that there ARE post anal bumps as those of a male on the tegu. They aren't as pronouced as the pics shown on another thread, but there definitely ARE two bumps right after the anus.

So is this a male? Or do females also have these bumps, albeit less pronouced? Which weighs in more to determine the sex? The post anal bumps or the jowls? By bumps I don't mean hemiphenes under the tail thing, but those two scales/pores whatever you call them that's like two round big circular scales right after and on either side of the anus.

As for the thing Johelian said, the iguana was specifically named after Liv Tyler. I saw a really beautiful female adult just before I decided to get one. My then girlfriend (ex-girlfriend now) found Liv Tyler really attractive and kept pounding it into my head for years so that every time I thought of a beautiful female I immediately thought of Liv. So that's how that name came about until "she" turned out to be a male. A REALLY male male.

VARNYARD · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject:

Anthony, Bert Langerwerf claims that some females have cloacal spurs or buttons, however I have only seen the cloacal spurs in males. I was judging by the two pictures you posted, in those pictures it looks like a female. This tegu looks to be over three feet long, at this size the jowls should be easily seen. In these pictures I do not see the jowls of a three foot male.

Do you have any better pictures of the head?

rekn · Member Joined: Jun 05, 2007 Posts: 31

cant mistake a tegu with jowls