From: "Eva Maisel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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| > (actually, two females are more likely to fight)
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| I'm taking this out of context and probably you mean that it's difficult
| (but not entirely impossible) to introduce 2 adult females which is
| probably true (I never tried).
Yes, Eva. Slightly out of context.
I was writing for a brand new gerbil owner who had bought one, and I was
encouraging that she get another. I threw in the parenthetical remark
because many people think that females are less aggressive than males in
ALL species.
It would have been better if I had not mentioned that parenthetically.
Better had I stressed that gerbil society gets more complicated with three
or more sharing a home.
(Pls remember it was only last May that a pet shop sent me home with three
young females and no warnings about possibilities as they grew mature. It
happens that I have multiple females -- mothers and daughters --
living in a couple tanks peacefully, so far. It was only in the bachelor
tank that murder occurred.)
