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Effects of incubation conditions on sex determination, hatching success, and growth of hatchling desert tortoises, Gopherus agassizii
JR Spotila, LC Zimmerman, CA Binckley… - Herpetological …, 1994 - JSTOR
… There was little mortality at intermediate temperatures … E is egg mass. eggs. None of the eggs
incubated under cool (26.0 C), wet (4.0% soil moisture) con- ditions in 1991 hatched … Ap- parently
35.3 C is too high a temperature for normal development of desert tortoise eggs …
I am constantly amused by posts of chelonians for sale with the sentence "incubated for females, but no guarantee".
It's a sliding scale, not an absolute switch.
To be less abusive with copy-write I am only including the page with a tell-all figure.
Another reason to hold back and grow-out some of your hatchlings.
Effects of incubation conditions on sex determination, hatching success, and growth of hatchling desert tortoises, Gopherus agassizii
JR Spotila, LC Zimmerman, CA Binckley… - Herpetological …, 1994 - JSTOR
… There was little mortality at intermediate temperatures … E is egg mass. eggs. None of the eggs
incubated under cool (26.0 C), wet (4.0% soil moisture) con- ditions in 1991 hatched … Ap- parently
35.3 C is too high a temperature for normal development of desert tortoise eggs …
I am constantly amused by posts of chelonians for sale with the sentence "incubated for females, but no guarantee".
It's a sliding scale, not an absolute switch.
To be less abusive with copy-write I am only including the page with a tell-all figure.
Another reason to hold back and grow-out some of your hatchlings.