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mark_w · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:08 pm Post subject: Egernia cunninghami

Hi,

My first young of 2008 - Egernia cunninghami. Pics taken when about ten days old.

This 5 year old female produced two babies in August 2007, and another two six months later in February 2008.

Cheers,
Mark.

lol93 · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject:

What beautiful babies! Congratulations.
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peaches · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject:

Awww fantastic, lovely to see some being bred Very Happy

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PaulG · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:16 pm Post subject:

Stunning.
Can we see an adult picture please ? Cool

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Jas · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:04 pm Post subject:

Thats something you dont see very often, nice one Mark. Very Happy

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kinyonga · Contributing Member Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 126

Beautiful babies!

I had some young adults for a while. Apparently when kept in groups, once in a while one is cast out and won't be accepted back into the group. I was given the outcasts to study to see if I could get them to form a group. (There was some studying being done about this outcasting.)

Apparently pair bonding occurs in these skinks too.

Here are some interesting articles you might like to look at (not from the people I worked with though)...
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.02060.x?journalCode=mec
" E. cunninghami maintained outbreeding in the face of increased accumulation of relatives"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=14717896&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google

http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/10/2/136

mark_w · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:47 am Post subject:

Thanks for the comments guys.

In terms of the group dynamics, I have seen this 'outcast' process in the flesh. I started with a group of 2.2 and they turned on one of the females -killing her in the process. I am trying to introduce new animals into the group, but not having much joy...

I don't have many good pics of the adults but here are a couple of darkish ones.

Cheers,
Mark.

kinyonga · Contributing Member Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 126

This casting out of females as well as males baffles me. It means its not just a male trying to keep a "harem".

It is definitely a challenge to get a new animal accepted to the group too which again can be baffling if its a female.

The outcasts that I was given would not form a group either. I had two that were cast out of the same group that remained together...but no others were accepted.

BTW...you said..."Thanks for the comments guys"....I'm no guy! Smile

mark_w · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:20 am Post subject:

Ailurus · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject:

wow there great!! congrats.

how big do adults get?
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