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Old 03-27-13, 02:59 AM   #1
Rob_H
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Sex determination in Varanids?

Hi all, a bit of a 'History of captive Varanids' question....

Sorry if this is hugely outdated, but what happened to all the hype about Varanids having their sex determined socially? As in, if you raise a pair of juveniles up together, the dominant one always becomes the male and subordinate the female?

Does anybody know who started this rumour? I remember it seemed almost gospel around >10 years ago with ackies.

Obviously this would be pretty interesting considering the Varanids tested since then have decently differentiated sex chromosomes.

Cheers! And awesome forum by the way!

Rob
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