Curious Animals take on high tech gadgets

[Cmoore]

I have MSN as my internet browser. There is a headline on there this morning with the above mentioned title, showing a male veiled chameleon being taunted by a cell phone. Who would do this? I mean really, who would purposely taunt or scare there pet? Makes me mad!!! I hope he got a good bite of that guys finger!

 

[ReptileLove18]

i saw that.. its irrating indeed, no reason to intentially aggravate your animal like that. that guy needs to be taught a lesson in how chams dont like to be messed with!

 

[SaintJimmy]

Ugh.. I saw a vid once where the owner had an ant squishing game and the cham tried to eat the phone.
Then it got all pissed and the owner still insisted it play with the phone and he scared the cham.

 

[pssh]

Personally, I don't think it's all that much different than making chameleons fire up. Unless the male is fired up because of a female, it's really only stressing the chameleon. Some chameleons are stressed just from the sight of seeing their owners, but the owners have to go in and do certain things to make sure they are okay.

Also keep in mind, that just because there is a video of a chameleon getting upset at a cell phone, doesn't mean the owner does it all the time. I remember when one of my chameleons was younger, I realized it didn't like cell phones and took a quick video of it getting upset and then never did it again (purposefully.)