Chameleon Intelligence

[Linda]

Wouldn't you all agree that there are certain situations that just make a chamy's personality come to the fore. My little female veiled (Angie) strikes me to not quite be the sharpest tool in the shed.

This morning while feeding her one of the crickets hoped onto her nose and crawled to the side of her face. Being a greedy one she was not prepared to let it get away. I could actually see her brain ticking over as she was trying to figure out how to get it. Santos my male would simply rub his face over a branch to get it off ..... then catch it.

I have also caught Angie trying to catch her crickets from the outside of the glass ... hitting the glass and then persistantly trying. The funny thing is that the glass is not clear it is frosted....

Has any one else noticed these differences in intelligence?

 

[Minihuey]

Wouldn't you all agree that there are certain situations that just make a chamy's personality come to the fore. My little female veiled (Angie) strikes me to not quite be the sharpest tool in the shed.

This morning while feeding her one of the crickets hoped onto her nose and crawled to the side of her face. Being a greedy one she was not prepared to let it get away. I could actually see her brain ticking over as she was trying to figure out how to get it. Santos my male would simply rub his face over a branch to get it off ..... then catch it.

I have also caught Angie trying to catch her crickets from the outside of the glass ... hitting the glass and then persistantly trying. The funny thing is that the glass is not clear it is frosted....

Has any one else noticed these differences in intelligence?

Yeah, I can defintely see personality traits in my chams. They do some strange stuff.

I think it is also our creative mind creating these egos for these simple creatures but thats what makes them so much fun!

 

[chameleon97]

I have also caught Angie trying to catch her crickets from the outside of the glass ...

You use a glass cage?

EDIT: oops. it looks like you were talking about a window. Sorry!

 

[jannb]

I find both of my chams to be highly intelligent. They free rang in my home and know their way around my house. If they want UV they go to the tree with the UV light over the top. If they just want to warm up they go to the tree with the basking light only. First thing in the morning they both like the trees with both basking and UV. When Luie wants to go on the back screened porch he goes over to the sliding glass door that leads to the porch and I open the slider and he goes out on the porch and up one of the trees out there. He will also come to the door when he wants back in. I have even had them come to the back of the house looking for me when I stay in the back for a long time. I stay home with these guys most of the time and allowing them free range you really get to see what intelligent little creatures they really are.

 

[Linda]

My male has free range and is quite good with where he wants to go..... (usually makes a bee-line for Angies enclosure.) Angie however is extremely housebound. She refuses to come out and is happy to sit and watch Santos from a distance. Even though I will open her enclosure.

Santos is the smart one he is already coming to the door of his enclosure when I touch the latches.

But I love them both the same. I leave Angie to be and do whatever she wants.

 

[Pure]

My little female veiled (Angie) strikes me to not quite be the sharpest tool in the shed.

Angie=s short bus. LMAO

I've noticed differences in my guys intelligence also. Lumbwi, my Melleri does the same thing Angie does with the food bin. His cage-mate has no issues and figured out real quick that I am the food giver. If I don't help Lumbwi out Feruzi would eat all the crickets. I've been having to hand feed Lumbwi to make sure he gets his share.

 

[Linda]

Angie=s short bus. LMAO
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Lol .... my poor Angie. At least her dad has a soft spot for her. He either hand feeds her too or tilts the glass under her chin so she can stop embarresing herself.

 

[Linda]

You use a glass cage?

EDIT: oops. it looks like you were talking about a window. Sorry!

No problem easy mistake to make. In South Africa we call what I am assuming you guys would call a tumbler?? (correct me if I am wrong) a glass.

 

[hallenhe]

Saccardo (my first cham) had no trouble with a transparent plastic cricket cup; Thaxter (the current one) would try to shoot at the crix through the plastic and was ultimately given an opaque cricket cup. Thaxter (free-range) mostly strikes me as reasonably intelligent, with the caveat that neither he nor Saccardo could ever, ever learn that you can neither walk through the window nor climb it. It does not seem to frustrate him; he'll just keep trying to grab on to it with his front foot, letting the foot slide down, and repeat.