Chameleon Identification

[Henlo Smit]

Can somebody help me to identify this chameleon?

 

[The Wild One]

That’s a Veiled, Yemen or even party hat. There all the same

 

[Henlo Smit]

That’s a Veiled, Yemen or even party hat. There all the same

Is there any way you can tell the difference, my father picked it up on the estate where he works. Here is another picture if it maybe helps

 

[jamest0o0]

Those are all words for the same chameleon, yemen chameleon(male) scientific name: Chamaeleo calyptratus

 

[kinyonga]

Where do you live?

 

[PabloTheCham]

Is there any way you can tell the difference, my father picked it up on the estate where he works. Here is another picture if it maybe helpsView attachment 260708

it is easy to tell them apart from others, they are the only ones with the casque on their head.

 

[Henlo Smit]

Okay thank you for your help everyone

 

[Henlo Smit]

Where do you live?

Pretoria in South Africa

 

[kinyonga]

So it's likely someone's pet?

 

[Henlo Smit]

So it's likely someone's pet?

We did ask, but sofar nobody came back to us

 

[kinyonga]

Are you going to keep it if you don't find an owner?

 

[Henlo Smit]

Are you going to keep it if you don't find an owner?

Yes we are

 

[PabloTheCham]

Yes we are

in this case, you will need a lot of supplies, and time to spend.

 

[kinyonga]

This is a great place to learn about chameleons!
Will you be keeping him inside or out? In an airconditioned area or not? Do you know anything about chameleon keeping?

 

[Henlo Smit]

This is a great place to learn about chameleons!
Will you be keeping him inside or out? In an airconditioned area or not? Do you know anything about chameleon keeping?

At this stage he will be staying in a lizard cage at night and in a tree in the day. We will be building him a proper cage before the weekend, we just need to figure out if we are going to keep him inside or outside, but I think inside will be best because temperature and humidity can be regulated. At least he started eating today so that was a good sign since he didn't want to eat anything yesterday

 

[Kaizen]

At this stage he will be staying in a lizard cage at night and in a tree in the day. We will be building him a proper cage before the weekend, we just need to figure out if we are going to keep him inside or outside, but I think inside will be best because temperature and humidity can be regulated. At least he started eating today so that was a good sign since he didn't want to eat anything yesterday

In Pretoria, I’d keep him outside year round.

 

[SourGrape4u]

Looks like he is about to shed so humidity would help him.

 

[The Wild One]

Looks like he is about to shed so humidity would help him.

Humidity makes shedding stick more, chams are dry shedders so it wouldn’t help.

 

[mkeBob]

Best place to go is the Resources section at the top of the page and read, read, read. Also, see the care sheet for Yeiled chameleon and read more.

 

[SolanchB]

Can someone help me with my little guy, I would like to know how old he is ??