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“We detected the presence of the growth plate cartilage in fully-grown individuals of the Acrodonta clade (Fig. 3a,b). GPC was present in almost all examined chameleons (42 individuals). Many of these animals were adults that have already reached a body size close to the upper limit reported for...

@ehdee6 said…”Ya'll are so lucky to have such a variety of cham species in America.”… where do you live in Canada?

Just for fun… https://www.chameleons.info/en/chameleon-shoes/ https://www.chameleons.info/en/chameleon-shoes/ https://www.chameleons.info/en/chameleon-shoes/

More… One for the kids…or the kid in you… https://kids.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ICD-Puzzles.pdf

For what it’s worth… https://wildlifemadagascar.org/news-and-stories/international-chameleon-day/ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250509774694/en/Seeing-the-Unseen-International-Chameleon-Day-2025-Spotlights-Hidden-Threats-and-Community-Solutions...

Wondering if it could be a vitamin A issue. I’m not a vet…just have kept chameleons for many years and read constantly about chameleons (and many other critters). Doesn’t vitamin A affect the viscosity of the mucus? How much vitamin A has the chameleon been getting and what form of vitamin...

More… “The graphs in Figure 5 show that peak velocity, acceleration and power of the chameleon tongue during projection (green) are much less temperature dependent than during retraction (yellow), as illustrated by the steeper yellow slope”...

So very sorry to hear that Spaghetti has passed. He had a good home with you and was lucky to have been “rescued” by you. Keep him in your heart. ❤️

Morphology and Histochemistry of the Hyolingual Apparatus in Chameleons… https://legacy.nau.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/133/2018/05/Herrel-et-al.-2001a.pdf NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE EXTREME MUSCLE MOVEMENTS OF CHAMELEONS...

I’ll have to let someone else speak to the supplements…I have always used different ones than these because I’m old school and never changed what I did because I never changed things I felt weren’t “broken”.

What colour are the urates? Pure white? White with a bit of yellow? Quite yellow?

Did you move the outside cage?

You said…”Their leaves fall off all the time”…these plants suffer from stress easily. Even moving the can cause them to drop leaves. Drafts, improper watering, etc can also cause leaf loss.

I love this story!

You said …”I’m not spraying directly into his open mouth, but around it so it drips into his tongue when he opens up for another gulp”…that sounds fine.