Please your guesses on sex

[Anfi]

Could you please help me to determine sex of my friend's hermann tortoise? See some photos below and thanks in advance.

 

[danieledwards2006]

Female.

 

[GBtortoises]

Definitely a female

 

[egyptiandan]

I agree it's a female

Danny

 

[Jupiterannette]

girly!

 

[Heavy]

A lot of thank's for your help!
I want to specify that this tortoise have just 4 inches long. How do you think it's really female or it can "change" it's sex?

 

[Jupiterannette]

it has the U not the V also the top of the carpus doesn't scoop under at all, and the U is wide so the egg can get out.. its not en exact science.. but experience speaks for something.... not that i have much.. lol but others here, have just a little lol

 

[Heavy]

OK, it'll be first female called Eddie

 

[Stephanie Logan]

Short for Edwina, of course.

 

[Heavy]

Short for Edwina, of course.

I'm afraid she was named in honour of Eddie Van Halen

 

[Stephanie Logan]

Has he been told yet (Mr. Van Halen)?

 

[GBtortoises]

Sorry, I just don't see the resemblance to Eddie Van Halen. Okay, I have to be honest, I've never seen Eddie's naked lower torso to actually be able to compare, but still, no resemblance that I can see (or imagine)!

Didn't care for the name Wolfgang I take it?

 

[Heavy]

We called her Eddie not because she looks like real person All my tortoises are named in honour of different people (famous guitar players, footbol players, personages of stories etc)

 

[-EJ]

The photographs are fantastic for the id of the animal. I do agree that it is a female.

What I question is how this animal differs from the animal that is posted in the general section for id of sex?

 

[Yvonne G]

I don't think Anfi posted a sex question in the "General" section. The most recent one I saw in that forum was a Greek tortoise. Which are you referring to?

 

[-EJ]

This one...
http://tortoiseforum.org/thread-11908.html

I don't think Anfi posted a sex question in the "General" section. The most recent one I saw in that forum was a Greek tortoise. Which are you referring to?

 

[Yvonne G]

Ok, I see...

I don't know anything about Hermann's tortoises, but here's my uneducated guess on the two pictures:

Anfi's tortoise's cloaca is rounder and the anal scutes are pointed down or towards the tail.

Siwash's tortoises's cloaca is a slit and the anal scutes are pointing towards the back legs.

How did I do, teach?

 

[GBtortoises]

Hey Yvonne-For an "uneducated" guess that was a very oberservant answer (and a correct one).

 

[-EJ]

Did you look at the photos I put in the general section post?

Normally I don't like using my hand in a photo but in this case I used it for scale. The difference between the male and female is quite obvious.

What's curious is that the photos in both posts are quite similar.

Ok, I see...

I don't know anything about Hermann's tortoises, but here's my uneducated guess on the two pictures:

Anfi's tortoise's cloaca is rounder and the anal scutes are pointed down or towards the tail.

Siwash's tortoises's cloaca is a slit and the anal scutes are pointing towards the back legs.

How did I do, teach?

 

[Heavy]

Anfi's tortoise's cloaca is rounder and the anal scutes are pointed down or towards the tail.

It was my tortoise ->

Could you please help me to determine sex of my friend's hermann tortoise?