male or female jackson?

[coldbloodedAL]

Yeah, the gular area is always red with most all Jacksons I've ever worked with. I have a very large older female who is as lime green as you can get, but if she gets upset and she puffs out her throat area, it is quite red on the area in between the scales that isn't normally visible unless she puffs it up. I don't know that the red-phase is out of the question. All I can say on that with the limited experience that I've had is that its intensity always fades with age, but they do however always remain a little different looking. If I posted a current picture of the female in my previous post, you'll see that she now remains a more yellowish ground color as opposed to the brilliant lime green that the 'non-reds' possess. You never know, only time will tell if your will maintain the red, it would be nice if they would do this.

Yes it would be wayyy cool if he kept the red. Either way i am completely happy with him. He is the start of my chameleon addiction lol.

 

[Miss Lily]

Females tend to have shorter, more rounded body shapes - this difference is obvious more so with Veiled chams as well as Jacksons in my experience. This is a pic of my friends female Xanth, mother of my sweet baby Monty. I remember my friend saying that when she first arrived she was quite drab and brown and named her Fudge due to her colouring! Now she is this lovely green! She is so calm and gentle too. These photos were taken back in May and she must have been gravid at the time. The male had died a couple of months before and she went on to give birth at the beginning of September.

 

[coldbloodedAL]

I see what you mean, i have noticed it while looking through more and more pics.

 

[xanthoman]

thank you Chris for chiming in. i was actually planning on contacting you and 1 or 2 others to request participation. although im not really sure i am seeing the hemipenal bulge that you are referring to, if you say its a male then that is good enough for me. thank you for adding your expertise to this thread.

ok, so, that pretty well tears it. now, based on the statement by Chris Anderson,

the horns are much more developed than is seen in females of this subspecies. I've seen females of this subspecies with both rostral and pre-occular horns before and they are not this developed when they are present. Chris

and based on SS's statement,

This is exactly the same as my female, the OP animal is a dead ringer of a younger version of my xanth,

can we now assume that there is a possibility, even a probability, that the animal that SS was assuming (or at least was previously identified as) a female, is actually more likely a male as well?

can we take this to mean that females never have fully developed preoccular horns, even stunted ones?

 

[Chris Anderson]

I'm not sure, I'd need to see a picture of SS's animal as descriptions and impressions of how developed structures are can vary.

Chris

 

[coldbloodedAL]

Chris, I know we have came to the conclusion that mine is indeed a male. Another thing i was thinking, a female jackson around this age or maybe a few months older would drop "pearls" as i have heard them called or a male would drop a sperm plug correct?