“This phenomenon is not about poetic feelings of the space below or tank hygiene, but about a simple interplay of instincts that work like an automatic response.”…
https://www.chameleons.info/l/handfull-of-chameleon-poop/
“The best thing for the maintenance of the rich Dwarf Chameleon fauna is to leave them where they have evolved and where they can carry out their useful ecological role as insect predators.”…
https://www.capenature.co.za/news/2024/now-you-see-me-now-you-dont-the-hidden-world-of-dwarf-chameleons
I don’t know much about genetics, etc but I’ve read that errors during meiosis can lead to gametes with extra chromosomes,
I found this which helps to explain it…
And these…
I don’t know of any studies on spaying chameleon.
Quite a few people have had them spayed, not to prevent the eggs but to prevent them from dying from follicular stasis and dystocia (egg binding). Not all vets are experienced enough to do a spaying successfully and not all chameleons are taken...
“The ranges of the two parent bird species have expanded due to climate change and now overlap around San Antonio, researchers say”…
“Analysis of the blood sample indicated the animal was truly a hybrid”…...
“ It was found that the implants were slightly encapsulated in a fine layer of collagen fibres. The same result was observed in another study in a group of veiled chameleons (Kummrow 2009) where intracoelomic tamoxifen implants were encapsulated by granu- lation tissue. Even in this case, the...
“We should NOT be spaying chameleons with follicular atresia, at least not always ”…
Atresia…the degeneration of those ovarian follicles which do not ovulate during the menstrual cycle.
Atresia…The degeneration and resorption of one or more ovarian follicles before a state of maturity has been...
“Our study reveals that Chamaeleo chamaeleon musae possesses the potential for allochronic separation. These chameleons reproduce 1 year after hatching, with only 0.2% of the population surviving to a second reproductive season”…
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.70144