Self-medicating..

[kinyonga]

Could this be a reason some veiled chameleons eat vegetation?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267359/

 

[MissSkittles]

Could this be a reason some veiled chameleons eat vegetation?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267359/

Very interesting article.

 

[kinyonga]

I'm always amazed at what some animals figure out.

 

[CasqueAbove]

Hmm, I wonder if in Yemen there is a plant they seek out? The munching on plants could almost be a residual Behaviour that serves a purpose in nature, but has no purpose out side it’s natural environment. I am thinking about dart frogs eating ants as a reference.

I was just wondering if their is any commonality in the plant they choose.

Mine seem to prefer some over others. So far I would relate it to texture. Grassy or palm types seem to get left alone. But there is variety in what she munches. Larger leaves seem less desirable, except pathos sp? Those seem to be good all the way through.
It is a good mystery.

 

[kinyonga]

There are two plants that Petr Necas mentions the veileds eat in the wild but I don't remember the names at the moment.

Even if it was a behavior in nature, why in captivity do females strip pothos bare while males don't.

 

[MissSkittles]

There are two plants that Petr Necas mentions the veileds eat in the wild but I don't remember the names at the moment.

Even if it was a behavior in nature, why in captivity do females strip pothos bare while males don't.

A couple of keepers of male veileds just posted that their male veileds have been eating the Pothos down to the nub.

 

[kinyonga]

I saw that post and I'm finding that rather curious because I be never heard of that before.

 

[Beman]

Beman would eat his down to the nub when he was younger. Supplements and feeders were on point and he still did it. I would have to rotate the pothos because he would eat so much of them. Still to this day he eats them... But now he has two vines that he specifically eats the leaves off then leaves the others alone. All are within his reach but he always goes back to the same two vines. As soon as a leaf starts to grow on those specific vines he takes it off. Interestingly they are both the Njoy pothos... rather then the marble queen. I guess he Njoy's them

 

[kinyonga]

@Beman and @ZEROPILOT ...these are the first male veiled chameleons that Ibe heard of eating pothos down bare! I still learn something new every day.

 

[Ares05]

Interestingly they are both the Njoy pothos... rather then the marble queen. I guess he Njoy's them

Ba-dum tssssss

 

[Beman]

Ba-dum tssssss

Hehehe I made a funny