Blackbeardie
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I have three bearded dragons, which have been identified by our vet as two females and one male. The male has very prominent femoral pores; they are barely visible on the other two. I have tried looking for the tail bulges, and I only see them on the male. I've tried transilluminating their tails, but I haven't been able to see anything clearly on the females. None of them have ever laid eggs.
While they each live in separate tanks, I often will let them out to explore around the house. Usually, they ignore each other, but once in a while they will interact.
This morning, I had my two females out, and one rushed at the other and latched onto the back of her head with her jaws. At first I thought it was aggression, and started to try to separate them, but the the biting one mounted her, grasped her with her hind legs, and twisted around to be cloaca to cloaca. "She" then proceeded to go glassy eyed and immobile for about a minute before coming to.
I've seen videos of bearded dragons mating, and this looked exactly like them. Well, I must have been mistaken about the genders, right? So I thought, until a half hour later, they rushed towards each other again. This time, the one that had been mounted previously climbed on top of the the one that had done the mounting, and proceeded to go through the exact same sequence, complete with the glassy eyed swoon at the the end.
I did not actually see hemipenes in either case. Their cloacas were slightly opened afterwards, but not enough that I could see anything unequivocally male.
So, two "female" dragons each in turn mounted each other and proceeded to have what certainly looked like orgasms. I have read that females will sometimes mount each other to stimulate their competitors to cycle their eggs to make them reproductively unavailable. However, do the females simulate mating that closely, including having orgasms? Or do I have gay bearded dragons? Very confused!
While they each live in separate tanks, I often will let them out to explore around the house. Usually, they ignore each other, but once in a while they will interact.
This morning, I had my two females out, and one rushed at the other and latched onto the back of her head with her jaws. At first I thought it was aggression, and started to try to separate them, but the the biting one mounted her, grasped her with her hind legs, and twisted around to be cloaca to cloaca. "She" then proceeded to go glassy eyed and immobile for about a minute before coming to.
I've seen videos of bearded dragons mating, and this looked exactly like them. Well, I must have been mistaken about the genders, right? So I thought, until a half hour later, they rushed towards each other again. This time, the one that had been mounted previously climbed on top of the the one that had done the mounting, and proceeded to go through the exact same sequence, complete with the glassy eyed swoon at the the end.
I did not actually see hemipenes in either case. Their cloacas were slightly opened afterwards, but not enough that I could see anything unequivocally male.
So, two "female" dragons each in turn mounted each other and proceeded to have what certainly looked like orgasms. I have read that females will sometimes mount each other to stimulate their competitors to cycle their eggs to make them reproductively unavailable. However, do the females simulate mating that closely, including having orgasms? Or do I have gay bearded dragons? Very confused!