More…
“Aging With Every Heartbeat aka Why Do Chameleons Get Old in Captivity While They Are Still Young”…
https://www.chameleons.info/l/aging-with-every-heartbeat/
“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
“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!”…...
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?
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.
@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...