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“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...

You asked…”what is the overall incidence of follicular stasis?”…this gives a bit of information…but personally I think it is much higher in veiled females…and I’ve only seen one case of follicular atresia in my very limited experience with reproductive issues that was seen in another person’s...

“Always use full-spectrum lights that closely resemble natural sunlight”… https://www.chameleons.info/l/the-fraud-of-the-light-perception-and-its-implication-on-chameleon-color-change-understanding-and-lighting-choice/

Panthers males are usually more mellow than veileds…but like other animals and people too…everyone is different. Caging is, I kept both species the same basically.

Petr has lots of information to share about chameleons from his many experiences with them in the wild and captivity.