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Posted by Kate on August 04, 2002 at 10:26:18:
In Reply to: Re: How to tell a male from a female? posted by Phunkeyphish on August 04, 2002 at 06:20:59:
If you have a baby or juvenile ig, there is no way to determine its sex without probing. Probing tends to be more dangerous for iguanas than it is for snakes, so most people just wait until their igs get older to determine the sex. Spike length varies by region, so it's not a good way to determine the sex of an iguana. The "circular bump things" are jowls - mature males have large ones that stick out, while females' jowls stay pretty flat. Males get fatty deposits on the top of their heads behind their eyes, so it looks like there are bumps there. And the femoral pores on the undersides of their thighs are large and very visible. On the females, those pores stay small and are not very noticeable.
Hope that helps. How old is your iguana, Lindsay?
Kate
:When they get larger males have much longer spikes, and i believe the iguana in general tends to be darker. Ive heard something about those circular bump things they ahve on heir cheeks, in males there are supposebly more and larger ones than on females, but the way I sexed mine was because his spikes are much longer than all the female iguana pictures i have seen.
