How do you know when a female is gravid? The females shown in the photos below all bred from February 1st to February 11th, 2021. By May 10th, approximately 90 to 100 days have passed from the breeding season, and the females are in the last stages of pregnancy. […]
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In lizards and snakes the males have two penises, which are known as hemipenes. (Turtles and tortoises have lost the plot and only have one — like the monkeys and naked apes and such.) The Squamata, the order comprising snakes, lizards and amphisbaenians, wisely keep their hemipenes in an internal […]
Is spermatozoa retention in Tiliqua for long periods a possible reproductive strategy? For captive blue-tongue skink breeding projects, and just a general understanding of Tiliqua reproduction in the wild, it would be important to discover if viable spermatozoa could be carried across breeding seasons. I’m not aware of any examples […]