matty
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hi i live in spain and have found two chameleons in my garden. I knew one was here last year after my dogs found it and had a little nibble. They put a puncture wound on one side of it, I rescued it from them and put it in a tree. We know the same chameleon is back as it has a heal scar in the same place.
Obviously we don't know it's sex but she is called Rita. She lives happily in a large jasmine tree.
The second one we found after it was knocked from our large olive tree while we were harvesting the olives...it just missed landing on the mother-in-law! Still I'll aim better next time!!! Anyway we lifted the chameleon and put it in a nesperro tree, which has very large leaves and plenty of them. He, (?), George, stayed in this tree for several weeks until yesterday when he lowered himself from the lowest branch, by his tail, onto the ground. The next tree closest to where he had been was a mandarin orange tree, and a bird had just made a nest in it and laid her eggs. She was a very good mum, always sitting on the eggs. Unfortunately George made for this tree yesterday afternoon. He didn't seem interested in the nest, sunning himself on the other side of the tree for the rest of the day. The bird also didn't seem concerned, she sat on her eggs. However, this morning the nest is pulled apart on the ground and there is no sign of the eggs or the shells.
Do chameleons eat eggs, including the shells? Being in Spain we do have snakes around, is it a coincidence and the snake had the eggs?
Obviously we don't know it's sex but she is called Rita. She lives happily in a large jasmine tree.
The second one we found after it was knocked from our large olive tree while we were harvesting the olives...it just missed landing on the mother-in-law! Still I'll aim better next time!!! Anyway we lifted the chameleon and put it in a nesperro tree, which has very large leaves and plenty of them. He, (?), George, stayed in this tree for several weeks until yesterday when he lowered himself from the lowest branch, by his tail, onto the ground. The next tree closest to where he had been was a mandarin orange tree, and a bird had just made a nest in it and laid her eggs. She was a very good mum, always sitting on the eggs. Unfortunately George made for this tree yesterday afternoon. He didn't seem interested in the nest, sunning himself on the other side of the tree for the rest of the day. The bird also didn't seem concerned, she sat on her eggs. However, this morning the nest is pulled apart on the ground and there is no sign of the eggs or the shells.
Do chameleons eat eggs, including the shells? Being in Spain we do have snakes around, is it a coincidence and the snake had the eggs?
