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Disclaimer:
This web page is for information only.
If your reptile is ill, take your pet to your
reptile veterinarian!
As our days get
longer with Spring, Merlin, a 50# sulcata tortoise, seeks an outlet
for his sexuality: breeding season is here! Just as with iguuanas,
the sight of a tortoise penis could be cause for alarm.
 
Male iguanas, even
blind male iguanas, are sexually active animals. This can lead to
a pet who is "trolling" around his habitat looking for
an outlet for his desire to mate. Sometimes an iguana will concede
to using a towel. Below are photographs of Rex, a mostly blind iguana.
Rex discovered this towel and since it had just held a female iguana,
he mated with it.
 
Owners
are surprised to see a reptile penis. In the iguana's case, he has
2 hemipenes. Shaped like a whale's tail, it is highly furrowed and
a very dark liver color.
Above,
Lawrence "mates" with an Ig Gear mating toy, while Cayo
prefers the sweatshirt of his human!
Here, Lawrence
started mating with a towel. Lal, the much larger iguana, jumped
into the fray and soon took over!
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2008
Colorado Reptile Humane Society.
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