Food for thought...and chameleons?

[kinyonga]

Furcifer oustaletis were observed eating fruit...some chameleons eat young lizards and birds...
https://www.madcham.de/en/chamaeleonfutter/

"The most frequent category taken by both sexes of C. africanus were plant remains (21.62% in males and 23.62% in females)"...
"In autumn more Lepidoptera and pebbles were found in the stomachs of C. chamaeleon, while in the spring more plant remains and spiders. In autumn more pebbles were found in the stomachs" of C. Africanus...
http://users.uoa.gr/~alegakis/index_en_files/PDFfiles/DimakiFeedEcol.pdf

 

[Morpheo's Mom]

Furcifer oustaletis were observed eating fruit...some chameleons eat young lizards and birds...
https://www.madcham.de/en/chamaeleonfutter/

"The most frequent category taken by both sexes of C. africanus were plant remains (21.62% in males and 23.62% in females)"...
http://users.uoa.gr/~alegakis/index_en_files/PDFfiles/DimakiFeedEcol.pdf

I am having an issue with these links. The first one has a German popup that I cannot get rid of to read the article and the second one just takes me right back to this page.

Anyone else with this problem or how to get around it?

 

[kinyonga]

Just tried them again and they work for me....don't know what to do to fix the issue for you @Morpheo's Mom . Sorry.

 

[Morpheo's Mom]

I got the second link to work.

Turns out those chameleons eat crabs, snails, bird feathers, sand , and stones. That is definitely variety and shows opportunistic feeding I would say!

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

The MadCham article is a neat article. I think mid to larger sized chameleons eat vertabrates in their native habitat more than most people think. I think those sources are just too good of sources of natural calcium, preformed vitamin A and water to pass up. That is along with other gut loads such as natural pollen and other high value mineral and nutrient sources.

I would not feed out wild caught gecko's to my chameleons because they would be a possible source and tranmission of outside factor such as possible parasites and bacteria's though.

Best Regards
Jeremy A. Rich