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“A recent field study reports a highly female-biased sex ratio in the Eastern Arc Endemic Usambara three horned chameleon, Trioceros deremensis, a large, sexually dimorphic species.”… https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1389&context=etd

“Potentially receptive F. verrucosus females mainly allowed males to attempt copulation, whereas potentially receptive F. labordi females were selective.”… https://www.jstor.org/stable/27669743

Click on the pictures… https://www.petrnecas.com/ “Life of my choice”… https://www.petrnecas.com/about-me/ “RESPONSIBLE HERPETOCULTURE EXPERT (CZECH REPUBLIC)”… https://responsibleherpetoculture.foundation/about-us/petr-necas/ “Chameleons”… https://www.chameleons.info/en/ “Petr Necas –...

“The Jackson's chameleons in Hawaii have crooked horns so often due to limited availability of calcium in their environment of volcanic origin.”… https://www.chameleons.info/l/why-the-hawaiian-jacksons-chameleons-have-often-deformed-horns/ Here are some articles I found about calcium in Hawaii…...

“Hermaphrodite Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) Infected with Mycobacterium chelonae Chemovar niacinogenes”… “The gonads were determined to be ovotestes. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of acute Mycobacterium chelonae septicemia in a veiled chameleon and also the...

“Sex Determination and Trans-Sexual Specimen In Chameleons”… “Hormones. If there is a hormonal disbalance, caused e.g. by surgical removal of oviducts and ovaries, the original female develops male-like characteristics like high casque or even full male-like appearance!”…...

Glad I could help!

You could give him insects like wax worms, horn worms along with crickets, hoppers etc because they should help with the hydration. Running a dropper might encourage more drinking for now too. What colour are the urates?

Is the top of the cage screen? Lay in…

Interesting occurence… https://www.chameleons.info/l/an-insane-metamorphosis-a-female-chameleon-becomes-a-male/

I’m not worried if they do! I’m definitely happy that @MissSkittles and a few others have taken over the husbandry reviews though. It was a lot for me.

I was going to comment on that…that you’re taking my “job” away from me!

@JacksJill said “The problem with bee pollen is it's an unmeasured commodity. It varies from source to source”…this is one of the issues I’ve worried about. You might like to read more this… https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10045447/ “this composition may be affected by botanical...

Are you going to add this to your gift wish list? https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Zoologist-Perfumes/Chameleon-53015.html

@DocZ …the study you cited was very interesting and one I have never seen! Glad you posted it!

Could be an eye issue or an injury or an infection or a supplement/husbandry issue…I don’t know how you can figure it out yourself.

I had a few of these, wild caught back when I first started keeping chameleons…none lived for 10 years with me, but they were all wild caught adults, age unknown, when I got them. One of them figured out how to open the sliding glass door on its cage. I don’t know how he was strong enough to...

@DocZ said…“That is his Achilles heal. He presents everything as fact.”…exactly. Hypotheses and suppositions from observation need to be proven to be facts. Saying “in my experience”…signals that what follows is an opinion, a generalization, an anecdote that comes from a person's experience or...

We do eat crunchie snacks though…don’t we? Granola bars, Rice Krispie squares, etc.

Edible insect analysis of diversity… https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55603-7