Eyed Female sunning herself

[barb1]

One female has been out in the sun last week. No sign of the others.

[chrisd]

Great picture, looks very much like mine. I thought that mine was male. Maybe I was wrong and I have 2 females ! Is there any way to tell the sexes if you only have females ?
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It has sunny yesterday which brought out a few of my lizards. An eyed, a male viridis and a female viridis. I'm glad that the viridis faired ok as I was a bit worried with the weather that we have been having and it is their first full year out in the greenhouse. I found a eyed that had just passed a way under a mound of moss that I keep in there. It looked like it was just too damp for it. The viridis and the other eyed are hibernating in a tree branch which is off the ground which I have insulated further with bubble wrap. That could be reason why they are ok, they are protected and dry in their branch. I have other lizards hibernating in holes I can only hope that they are ok and have not been too wet and cold.

[morbid]

Feb 23, 2009 21:56:21 GMT chrisd said:

Great picture, looks very much like mine. I thought that mine was male. Maybe I was wrong and I have 2 females ! Is there any way to tell the sexes if you only have females ?
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It has sunny yesterday which brought out a few of my lizards. An eyed, a male viridis and a female viridis. I'm glad that the viridis faired ok as I was a bit worried with the weather that we have been having and it is their first full year out in the greenhouse. I found a eyed that had just passed a way under a mound of moss that I keep in there. It looked like it was just too damp for it. The viridis and the other eyed are hibernating in a tree branch which is off the ground which I have insulated further with bubble wrap. That could be reason why they are ok, they are protected and dry in their branch. I have other lizards hibernating in holes I can only hope that they are ok and have not been too wet and cold.

One of the easies way to tell sexes apart, is by looking on the shape of their heads. The males have an allmost triangular shape, very broad at the jaw, while the females have a more rounded / "aerodynamic" shape. It´s a very distinct difference, and you can´t miss it if you have adult animals.

[barb1]

Yes that's right. The female has a much more slender head, the male much broader and altogether more masculine look about him. I will try and find a pic. for comparison.

[barb1]

Here we are Chris. This is my Eyed male last year. As you can see quite chuncky and thick around the neck.
Both females out now, just waiting on this guy!

[chrisd]

Thank you for the picture. I see what you mean about the males being broader around the head area. I think I may have 2 females after all when I compare mine to your picture. . They are still young but