A Magical Metamorphosis: A Female Chameleon Becomes a Male…

[kinyonga]

Interesting occurence…
https://www.chameleons.info/l/an-insane-metamorphosis-a-female-chameleon-becomes-a-male/

 

[ehdee6]

I've recently learned that you can donate your pets body to (your local vet School) science. I'm thinking I might do that with my pets. They return the ashes to you too.

 

[kinyonga]

“Sex Determination and Trans-Sexual Specimen In Chameleons”…
“Hormones. If there is a hormonal disbalance, caused e.g. by surgical removal of oviducts and ovaries, the original female develops male-like characteristics like high casque or even full male-like appearance!”…
https://www.chameleons.info/l/sex-determination-and-trans-sexual-specimen-in-chameleons/

 

[kinyonga]

“Hermaphrodite Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) Infected with Mycobacterium chelonae Chemovar niacinogenes”…
“The gonads were determined to be ovotestes. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of acute Mycobacterium chelonae septicemia in a veiled chameleon and also the first report of hermaphroditism in this species.”…
https://bioone.org/journals/journal...alyptratus-Infected/10.5818/18-04-150.1.short