Can anyone explain this weirdness?

[strawberryfielity]

I usually feed my young veiled chameleon 10 crickets/day and she usally eats them all. This morning though, when I went to give her more crickets, I noticed a very strange thing (to me)there were 4 crickets left over....and all 4 of them were missing their back legs! my theory is that maby those 4 were too big for karma (my chameleon) to eat, but I do confess when I realised all the legs were missing it did freak me out a little

 

[ryno202]

they could have been missing when you put them in there, hindering their mobility and your cham might not have noticed them?

 

[SweetObsolete]

Maybe the crickets ate them off each other? If I don't give my crickets enough food, they will eat each other. I don't know why they'd go for just the back legs though :O

 

[camimom]

Maybe the crickets ate them off each other? If I don't give my crickets enough food, they will eat each other. I don't know why they'd go for just the back legs though :O

Baby the back legs have more meat on them? I mean after all, they are used for the jumping, so they build more muscle or something... lol

 

[gogochameleon]

I usually feed my young veiled chameleon 10 crickets/day and she usally eats them all. This morning though, when I went to give her more crickets, I noticed a very strange thing (to me)there were 4 crickets left over....and all 4 of them were missing their back legs! my theory is that maby those 4 were too big for karma (my chameleon) to eat, but I do confess when I realised all the legs were missing it did freak me out a little

What is your gutload? Maybe they were not healthy. I notice the weaker slower crix the legs fall off easier when i pick them up.

 

[strawberryfielity]

No, when I put them in, they had all of their legs. I fish them out from my cricket tank 1 at a time and put them in my chameleon house. I use flukes gutloader, and I also feed the crickets dried oatmeal.