Hi Chris,
Thank you so much for the information! Here is another chameleon I've found here. It looks to me like a male Graceful Chameleon? I'll be releasing Irving back into the wild today.
Thanks again,
Jasmine
Thank you all for your help and advice!
Here are some pictures I took of Irving this afternoon - two were indoors and one was of him outside on a plant while we basked in the sun for a while. He is doing so much better now. I think it was the shock of being captured and then transported...
Feeding Update
I just got Irving to eat 4 weaver ants and 1 weaver ant larva by opening his mouth and putting them on the edge of it, then he gobbled them right up.
He's doing pretty well now - more active, responsive and mobile. But hand feeding him is not a long-term option, so I'm hoping...
Hello, my name is Jasmine and I am a US Peace Corps volunteer living in Ghana. I have some crucial and immediate questions for you, but I'd like to preface it with a quick background story about how I came to possess a wild chameleon here in Ghana.
Yesterday I was in a city called Sunyani...