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Sure, that would be much appreciated.

Right, I meant the baseline color that a carpet would be having. A lot of pictures are just them super fired up during the leadup of them laying eggs. I just wanted to see a picture of one as it would be for most of the year.

I will be honest. I did a few days of research on this which is not enough to claim any expertise, and like I said, we don't have much data on Chams so I extrapolated for other closely related species, but yeah I could definitely be wrong or have made errors in my work. I am a lover of science...

Thank you!

If you look them up online, you will see these beautiful pictures of super contrasting colors for females, like blacks, whites, reds, greens, purples and oranges. I'm just wondering if they actually look like that in their basal relaxed state or if that's them showing their gravid colorations...

No studies that I know of. Unfortunately, studies on chameleons are pretty sparse because results are hard to monetize. Cancer research, human research, even mammalian research, all of that is valuable to the government, but the government is pretty unlikely to fund a chameleon study, which is...

Thank you so much for the support and yes, the chemistry and cellular biology of chameleons is all very interesting. Crazy world we live in, but a beautiful one.

Well, I'll lean towards no. The reason I say this is that just because an insect has something doesn't mean that that thing is transmitted to the chameleon. For instance, if you eat a salad, those cells have chloroplasts, and yet when you eat the salad, even though you fully absorb those cells...

CHITIN: Today, I want to introduce you to a molecule called chitin. Chitin is a highly complex chain of N-acetylglucosamine, which is somewhat similar to glucose. If you look up a picture of chitin, you will see what appears to be two shapes that kind of resemble an hourglass. These are...

If I ever do this again (which I'd love to), I will certainly add a bibliography :). Here's some you might enjoy (most are not done on chameleons, but we can extrapolate info on closely related animals to chameleons) that I used for my research: Light: Dyes and Pigments: Their Structure and...

I used sources, as in - I did research, it is my content though as in, I assembled the research together.

IRIDOPHORES: So, we mentioned earlier that the chameleons have on the outermost layer, keratinocytes. These are clear. But these are not chromatophores, and the chromatophores I want to start with are the superficial iridophores. Iridophores have those guanine crystals we talked about earlier...

CHAMELEON COLOR CHANGE: As I’m sure you know, Chameleons are capable of color change. And, when I first was interested in how they did this, I looked it up and was provided with the simple answer “Chameleons can change color due to their special chromatophores”. This is something most people...

Hey guys, so here's my situation. In a few months I'm getting a female Carpet Chameleon and putting her in a glass/screen hybrid enclosure which I'm setting up right now. I want to give her a nice place to hide and I think that would be easier if there was a solid wall on the back side, and I'd...