Wishing you all peace and a merry Christmas…may the year ahead be full of good health and good times with friends, family and pets!
I know this wish is a few hours early…but any who celebrate it may be busy tomorrow!
My first pair of globifers purchased in the early 1990’s…WC and adults when I got them…
https://www.adcham.com/images/images-species/C.globifer/glob.jpg
“Cecal valves slow down food passage and provide for fermenting chambers, allowing commensal microorganisms to convert cellulose to volatile fatty acids”…
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0711998105
Could this happen in chameleons as well?
Yemen chameleons have a caecum…so do they have a...
“These data suggest that eating crickets may improve gut health and reduce systemic inflammation; however, more research is needed to understand these effects and underlying mechanisms.”…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29032-2
“In this dissertation I evaluate, based on a taxonomic revision of Calumma nasutum group, the significance of mitochondrial lineages for species delimitation and promote micro- computed tomography (micro-CT) as an additional tool for integrative taxonomy. The second part deals with the discovery...
Just for fun…
https://zambia.desertcart.com/products/20326316-the-mountain-boys-little-kids-climbing-chameleon
Stuffie…
https://botswana.desertcart.com/products/414168169-folkmanis-small-chameleon
Chameleon ornament…...
For the kids..and the chameleon lovers…
https://www.halloweencostumes.ca/chameleon-costumes.html
Neptune…
https://www.chameleonforums.com/media/chameleon-halloween-bloopers-happy-halloween.52611/
Chameleon carved from pumpkin…
Chameleonon pumpkin…...
“The venoms of formicine ants are well-known to contain concentrated formic acid.”…
https://www.antwiki.org/w/images/a/a9/Koch%2C_L._et_al._%282025%29_Acid_reign_%2810.25849%40myrmecol.news_035%26001%29.pdf
Harpalus pensylvanicus are formic acid producers...
“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…...