I'm not sure my female box turtle is actually a female

[lisa127]

My box turtle Peanut by all appearances looks to be female. Today while in her water dish however, it looked like she was going to flash. I watched, something started to come out and then went back in and she left the water dish. I don't think she was trying to go potty! So I'm going to keep a close eye on her and see if it happens again. It would, however, explain her bullying behavior I guess towards Crush, the boxie I just adopted out to lismar79.
ETA: not sure why the last pic posted 3 times!

 

[Yvonne G]

You can substitute one of those three for a tail shot, hint, hint.

 

[thea lester]

What are "her" dimensions? What kind of boxie do you think she is?

 

[lisa127]

She is a gulf coast/three toed integrade box turtle. As for dimensions, I do not know how wide across she is. Her SCL is at least 6 inches, haven't measured in a while. She weighs about 670 grams. And now I'm back to thinking she is female and was probably just trying to go potty...lol. But I will work on getting a tail shot.

 

[Living Fossil]

You can determine this by:

A.
Is her belly flat or concave ?

or B.
If she goes up to one of the other male turtles and says, "Hey, what's that?"
Then you know for sure she's a girl.

 

[Lyles]

She's a female, and I'm surprised that she looks exactly like my Alexia, who is also a three-toed/gulf coast hybrid.

Up until her mother's batch of eggs I've never seen three-toes with such broad dark borders around the scutes like that.

 

[lisa127]

She's a female, and I'm surprised that she looks exactly like my Alexia, who is also a three-toed/gulf coast hybrid.

Up until her mother's batch of eggs I've never seen three-toes with such broad dark borders around the scutes like that.

I believe she is female as well.

Is yours huge like her?

 

[Lyles]

I believe she is female as well.

Is yours huge like her?

http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/my-three-toed-introduction-thread.102431/

 

[lisa127]

http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/my-three-toed-introduction-thread.102431/

Peanut turned 3 years old in August, so basically 3 years and 3 months old. She is a hair past 6 inches SCL. She weighs 667 grams at last weigh in. She is very, very large.