You said…”I noticed her tongue was very slow/weak so noted that down, she could barely extend her tongue an inch or two past her face”…this concerns me. What have you been giving her as supplements?
How long ago did she lay the last batch of eggs?
@MissSkittles said …”Do chameleons which lack tarsal spurs do the same leg motion when they mate? So very much that is a mystery”… I haven’t investigated that yet.
You see the motion of Hammlet’s back foot…at one time it was suspected that as they were mating, this kicking was done to the female chameleon during mating to posssibly stimulate her egg production. I don’t know if it was ever proven. Kenny Barnett asked me to watch my chameleons when they were...
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Study of Zoonotic Pathogens in Alien Population of Veiled Chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus in the Canary Islands (Spain)…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10376624/
“In conclusion, the invasive veiled chameleon population in the Canary Islands should be...