Many sites by Petr Necas…

[kinyonga]

Click on the pictures…
https://www.petrnecas.com/

“Life of my choice”…
https://www.petrnecas.com/about-me/

“RESPONSIBLE HERPETOCULTURE EXPERT (CZECH REPUBLIC)”…
https://responsibleherpetoculture.foundation/about-us/petr-necas/

“Chameleons”…
https://www.chameleons.info/en/

“Petr Necas – Understanding Chameleons”…
https://www.chameleons.info/l/petr-necas-understanding-chameleons/

“Books by Petr Necas”
https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/petr-...xCDXGK9YKndunNoiBNLSLP6ysW7nBbFj6cXf9J-VgWYjH

“Barely Seen, Deeply Fascinating: The Lowland Enigma Trioceros camerunensis”…
https://www.researchgate.net/public...ing_The_Lowland_Enigma_Trioceros_camerunensis
More…
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petr-Necas-3

“FOG DRINKING IN CHAMELEONS Petr Necas”…

 

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More…
“Aging With Every Heartbeat aka Why Do Chameleons Get Old in Captivity While They Are Still Young”…
https://www.chameleons.info/l/aging-with-every-heartbeat/

 

[LizardLurkin]

More…
“Aging With Every Heartbeat aka Why Do Chameleons Get Old in Captivity While They Are Still Young”…
https://www.chameleons.info/l/aging-with-every-heartbeat/

This does have me thinking. Admittedly, my temps are on the lower end of the spectrum usually, especially as we move into winter. We do observe how lower temperatures and less frequent feedings benefit female veiled chameleons with egg production.
Has anyone toyed with lower temperatures in captivity? It'd also certainly make fogging at night less of a potential hazard.

I want to see/learn more about the 16 year old individual. That sounds amazing to me. I would love to see that in captivity.

 

[PetNcs]

there is lots info on www.archaius.eu and www.chameleons.info

 

[DocZ]

This does have me thinking. Admittedly, my temps are on the lower end of the spectrum usually, especially as we move into winter. We do observe how lower temperatures and less frequent feedings benefit female veiled chameleons with egg production.
Has anyone toyed with lower temperatures in captivity? It'd also certainly make fogging at night less of a potential hazard.

I want to see/learn more about the 16 year old individual. That sounds amazing to me. I would love to see that in captivity.

I did some relatively small variations in temperature through the year for chameleons but I reversed the seasons to how they would occur in the northern hemisphere since in the summer I get too much natural light to fool the Cham into thinking it’s the cool season

I do make pretty large temperature changes for my leopard gecko over the course of the year and he’s done well with. Again basing these changes on climatic data in their home range. He’s certainly less active and eats less in the winter period. It ends up being about a 20 degree swing done gradually throughout the year up and down

 

[nightanole]

They tried to apply this logic in tegu land. The experiment was those that hibernate/brumate there animals for 6-8 months a year, vs those (i assume more tropical areas) that never put their animals down. At the end of the study no correlation was found. So it wasnt like you get a fixed amount of tegu time, and you get 10 years out of your 365 tegu and 20 years out of your 180day tegu.