mirrinias
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Hi everyone, today I encountered a behavior from my 1 year old male veiled that I've never seen before!
I took him outside with me while I took the trash out, and on the way back in, Jean-Luc looked at me head on, puffed out his chin as far as he could, and did a weird little head jiggle at me! He also vibrated a little (you know what I mean by this, hopefully). It was pretty comical from my point of view.
My thought is that it was a territorial display or an "I'm big and scary now get away from me and bring me back inside" display. I've heard of head bobbing at female chameleons before, but I'm having a hard time finding videos of territorial displays of male veiled chameleons.
Has anyone else seen this from their chameleons, or know what this behavior is?
I took him outside with me while I took the trash out, and on the way back in, Jean-Luc looked at me head on, puffed out his chin as far as he could, and did a weird little head jiggle at me! He also vibrated a little (you know what I mean by this, hopefully). It was pretty comical from my point of view.
My thought is that it was a territorial display or an "I'm big and scary now get away from me and bring me back inside" display. I've heard of head bobbing at female chameleons before, but I'm having a hard time finding videos of territorial displays of male veiled chameleons.
Has anyone else seen this from their chameleons, or know what this behavior is?