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Old 01-29-12, 04:15 PM   #1
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A few photographs of my critters - part 1

My adult lace monitor pair, Alex and NeLiSh, wandering around my place and enjoying some afternoon sun.



Alex, the male.

Unfortunately, their skin is almost always stained from the substrate so the colours rarely show, but in this photograph you can see his true colours around his face and neck, compared to the darkly stained skin on his back and arm.

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Part 2

Part 2: The pair playing the 'loving' couple, which they do for two or three week-long periods each summer.



A very rare photograph of them mating inside the enclosure


99% of their matings have occurred here, on my rug


Sometimes they find other places to mate.
On a couple of occasions, they mated on the top of another monitor's enclosure. You can see the head of the little guy poking out of the log on the left hand side - clearly must have been woken up and was wondering what was going on with the neighbours upstairs.


I've got three or four photographs of Alex and NeLiSh mating on this sofa which, after 12 years of the two of them crawling all over it, has finally given up the ghost this year.
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Nice pics man ;-)
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See what happens when you trust the babysitter...
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Wow they are amazing and super sweet pictures.
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Re: A few photographs of my critters - part 1

Those pics are great!! The monitor porn photos around the house are HILARIOUS
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Absolutely gorgeous monitors...thanks for posting.
It is rare to see these guys.
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How do you feel sitting on that sofa? Lol.

As I've said on another forum, great pictures, amazing animals.
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How do you feel sitting on that sofa? Lol.

As I've said on another forum, great pictures, amazing animals.
This made me think of a question....

...do monitors ejaculate sperm like human men do? Does it ever spill out onto the sofa or wherever they're doing it? Or is it all a neat, mess-free scene?
Also, do they make noises? LOL sorry but I'm really curious about monitor sex for some reason
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Lol!!!! Erm, I haven't noticed a mess, nor have I noticed noises. That's not to say that all monitors are as quiet and clean as mine.
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This made me think of a question....

...do monitors ejaculate sperm like human men do? Does it ever spill out onto the sofa or wherever they're doing it? Or is it all a neat, mess-free scene?
Also, do they make noises? LOL sorry but I'm really curious about monitor sex for some reason

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I almost just peed myself reading this!
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I almost just peed myself reading this!
Seriously! I want to know if the squirt and moan or not ....LOL
oh oh am I being too inappropriate?
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Seriously! I want to know if the squirt and moan or not ....LOL
I don't know but I would assume no. My guess is that being in such a vulnerable "position" in the wild, making noise and drawing attention to yourself would be counter productive

Just my guess though
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See what happens when you trust the babysitter...
Now THAT'S funny!
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...do monitors ejaculate sperm like human men do? Does it ever spill out onto the sofa or wherever they're doing it? Or is it all a neat, mess-free scene?
No spillage at all. There are biological reasons humans produce as much semen as they do (to flush away a competitor's 'input', so to speak). Interestingly enough, this is the second time I've had this discussion in regards to monitor sex in two days, as someone on another forum showed a photograph of a wet spot after his monitors had attempted to mate and it supported what I thought I'd seen in his video - the male missed his target.
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Also, do they make noises? LOL sorry but I'm really curious about monitor sex for some reason
No need to apologise, we're all adults here
Mild hissing at times, but that's about it. When the male thrusts there's sometimes a weird popping sound, too.

Waaay too much detail!
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