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You flatter me and give me too much credit! But thank you for your compliments. I wish I could do better…there’s still too much to learn. How I wish I could have done what Petr has done and observed them in the wild! He’s had experiences and opportunities few have had by observing them in the wild.

I just wanted it to be clear that it wasn’t a reply to only what I said…I don’t think I’ve ever dismissed him although we may have had differences of opinion once in a while!

Assuming that this isn’t completely directed at me since I did not comment on things like protein in roaches, etc.

@nightanole said…”Welp guess ill start breeding Madagascar bees or something”…bet importing bees from Madagascar isn’t allowed….so you will need to substitute something biologically inappropriate. We’re off to a good start. Petr said…”In captivity, chameleons are often fed what is available...

“While energy is essential for metabolism in general, it is inaccurate to claim that chameleons are incapable of digestion at lower temperatures within their normal circadian ranges.”…...

@Motherlode Chameleon … Always happy to add to your reading list!

You will have lots to read by the look of your posts!

Anytime!

“ABSTRAcT. - In order to determine the effects of recent diet on prey choice, Senegalese chameleons (Chameleo senegalensis) were maintained on a diet consisting either of long-horned grasshoppers (Scud- deria sp. or or house crickets Acheta domesticus. Choice tests showed that when the...

“Bradypodion taeniabronchum were found to prefer sedentary and avoid evasive items with equal dierence in both winter and summer. Conversely, B. ventrale changed from no discernable preference in winter, to an aversion of evasive prey items in summer.”…...

“The fracture was oblique and that ensured the two portions of the humerus didn’t rotate over the intramedullary pin”… http://www.edizionibelvedere.it/assets/8.-di-giuseppe-et-al.pdf

https://arls.ro/storage/posters/2025/Global%20Challenges%20And%20Solutions%20For%20Animal%20And%20Public%20Health%20In%20One%20Health%20Context/Bonea_Elena_A%20case%20of%20an%20Emergency%20C-section%20in%20chameleon%20egg%20stasis.pdf

Have you spayed any chameleons?

For sure…and interesting and amazing!

Leptin plays a part is a lot of “things” such as obesity, reproductive and immune systems, etc. in many creatures, including humans. I’m amazed at how much it is involved with the body systems.

I’m sure the lack of calcium had something to do with the development of the MBD when the FS and dystocia were occurring.

I played a minor part in a couple of other studies along the way too. 2 of the chameleons in the original CANV study were mine….and the parsoni donated several samples of blood and the fungus.

You said…”I would guess you took healthy Chams with a surgical problem to an experienced vet for surgery, and then took optimal care of them during recovery”…not exactly. I only had one of my own die from what I thought was egg binding…but I was never sure…too hard to explain. I did take...

One of the reasons I started the diet, etc was because of documentaries I had watched about many (mostly African) animals would not produce litters in a bad year (poor food, water supply, etc) so I wanted to try it out to an extent that my chameleons would not be starving or suffering but had a...

You said…”Proper care (which all you awesome people are promoting) should be more affective than preventative surgery in my opinion (which has absolutely no scientific basis, but seems right”…after that study was done, I posted on here about how I cared for my veileds and that most of them lived...