Pardalis female acts like a male

LotInsect

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Hello, I have a "female" Pardalis that is acting like a male, fighting and getting on top of the others doing male sounds, but the tail is extremely short, shorter than my others Pardalis females, the tortoise is around 40 cms and I recently bought her.
Can Female Pardalis have this behavior or I need to assume that my tortoise its a male?
 

Yvonne G

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Females do this when they get in breeding/nesting mode.
 
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