I HAVE NOT READ ALL THIS THREAD SO EXCUSE ME IF YOU ALREADY SAID.Here are a few recent pictures. I'm 99% sure he is a he now. He now weighs close to 2KG which is 4X heavier than when i got him.
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I HAVE NOT READ ALL THIS THREAD SO EXCUSE ME IF YOU ALREADY SAID.
DO YOU KNOW WHICH ONE OF ITS PARENTS WAS THE LEOPARD?
LOOKS NICE. WOULD A SULLY AND A LEOPARD CROSS PATHS IN THE WILD?
CHEERS.
Can I just throw this out there since it seems to be an ignored part of this topic, but Hybrids amongst these two species actually do occur in the wild, not that often, but they have bred before.
My concern is not that hybrids will make it back to Africa and pollute the wild gene pool. My concern is that what we have here in the US is all we will ever have. Importation was banned almost 20 years ago (1998), and what we have in captivity right now is all we will ever have. If we fail to preserve it and start mixing species and genetics we will eventually lose what we've got. It is already happening with mixing different locales of leopards and RFs. Mixing entirely different species just muddies the waters exponentially.
Further issues with this:
1. Showing pictures like these encourages more of this, and these two species should never be mixed. Behaviorally they are very incompatible.
2. Mixing species should not be encouraged because of the very real increased disease potential.
Tom or anyone else, do you know if these animals animals are fertile or sterile?
I never new that mules were infertile. That's my new knowledge for today. So do we know yet if anyone has a fertile hybrid tortoise out there. Or has nature covered this too.What most keepers forget is a tortoise after being bred one time she holds the ability to produce for up to five years without a male . So this female gets sold or traded to another keeper lays more and more inbred tortoises for years . Not a thing you should ever do . A horse and a donkey bred together makes a mule . But the horse doesn't hold onto the males sample but for the one time . Then the mule is infertile no more babies . Its natures way of keeping a good blood line .