Gerbils – popular pets. There is no wonder, these rodents do not demand regular walking, they are unpretentious, do not possess an unpleasant smell and are capable to remain in a cage throughout the day. Choosing itself pets, pay attention that gerbils were same-gender if you do not plan them to part and you do not want in several months them to fill your house.
Instruction
1. The difference between mature males and females of the Mongolian gerbils is quite obvious. Puberty at rodents comes to the end at the age of half a year. If you look between pads to an adult male of a gerbil, then will see large testicles on which you also will manage to distinguish him. If a rodent still young, you can press a little to it on a stomach to see a difference.
2. It is much heavier to define a sex at small gerbils. Accurately take a rodent and turn him a stomach up. At the same time it will be better if you begin to hold with one hand his head, and to hold with the second hand for a bottom. Attentively examine a paunch of an animal. At females nipples have to be excreted distinctly. If at gerbils wool already began to grow, blow to a rodent on a stomach, and nipples will become visible.
3. Turn a gerbil and look with it between pads. At female animals sexual and an anus are nearby. Distance between them literally couple of millimeters. At males of gerbils the genital is located much further.
4. After approach of puberty of males it is possible to distinguish from females also on behavior. Most often males of gerbils more friendly, while females brisk and active.
5. If you do not cope with sex determination of your small animals independently, address on a forum of fans of rodents where you with pleasure will be helped. Photograph a crotch of an animal, and people who faced these rodents will be able to tell you what floor your gerbils.