Footage of calyptratus in Yemen

Hi Folks,

Just re-uploaded in better quality six short camcorder footage of Veiled Chameleons in the wild in Yemen.

Cheers

Link
http://www.youtube.com/user/veiled17/videos

The quality is much better! Thank you for sharing your videos. I love seeing them move in their natural environment. Thought it was really cool when you taped the chameleon basking on a far stretched limb off the side of the road... talk about living on the edge!

Thanks for posting you have got great footage. One of the video's actually show two Ch. calypatratus. Which seems to be a female. It is in the Tall Acacia video check it out and see if you can spot her.

Pretty cool that you even spotted it from that far away. How densely packed are they onto the trees? A cham per branch?

AlecWade said:

The quality is much better! Thank you for sharing your videos. I love seeing them move in their natural environment. Thought it was really cool when you taped the chameleon basking on a far stretched limb off the side of the road... talk about living on the edge!

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It was early morning and he wasn't bothered by all the heavy road traffic

Motherlode Chameleon said:

Thanks for posting you have got great footage. One of the video's actually show two Ch. calypatratus. Which seems to be a female. It is in the Tall Acacia video check it out and see if you can spot her.

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Hi - can you say at what timing that is in the video, i can't see her but i really hope you are right. One of the problems with Acacia trees is the seed pods are either long, thin and curly like a chameleon tail, or quite fat like a chameleon side on. It was relatively easy to spot the males on the outer branches of a tree - in the middle forget it!

spawn said:

Pretty cool that you even spotted it from that far away. How densely packed are they onto the trees? A cham per branch?

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Hi, to be honest the males are so colourful they became quite easy to spot if they were on the outer branches of a tree. Regarding density, i only observed one male per tree. I must emphasize this as it seemed one male has a whole tree to himself, his territory. It makes sense, this species has males that are so big colourful and aggressive they are declaring their territory in no uncertain terms and having a whole tree they have plenty of cover and variable basking positions and plenty of space to hunt. I would guess females circulate around the males trees (i didn't see any, or did i - see comment above)

Upon further review I could be wrong. It is at 1:40 mark and is a couple feet below the male. The images front looks as though it could be another Veiled however if you have a second look what should be the tail is pretty wide for a tail. Check it out and see what you think.

Motherlode Chameleon said:

Upon further review I could be wrong. It is at 1:40 mark and is a couple feet below the male. The images front looks as though it could be another Veiled however if you have a second look what should be the tail is pretty wide for a tail. Check it out and see what you think.

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Got it!. I can see what you mean, i'm pretty sure it's a couple of acacia seed pods lying loose in the canopy but i wouldn't stake my life on it...

Thanks for sharing these vids! Amazing animals. Gives me some free range ideas!

Beautiful videos! You know what those areas are actually my hometown (southern Arabia). I go there every summer. So when it comes to the natural habitat of those chameleons I know everything. But the problem is that they can very rarely be found! I'm not sure about Yemen, but in southern Saudi they can be considered endangered. I've seen many common chameleons though which live in the exact same habitat.

I realize this is an old thread, but awesome videos! I sometimes have a hard time finding wild footage of chameleons, and I'm extremely interested in their wild habitats and behaviors, so these videos are like a pot of gold to me lol.

Great Videos

Loved those videos! Its always interesting to see them in their natural habitat.

Awesome sauce!