Chameleon Research

[joshuaseidman94]

Hey guy!
My name Josh and I am 19 years old. I am currently a college student studying biology with hopes of attending medical school. Recently, I acquired my first chameleon (panther ambilobe). After caring for him for a few months it got me thinking about why chameleons aren't popular tests subjects, especially in psychology. The reason I mention psychology is because it is so easy to tell when a chameleons emotions change based on their color changes. After a bit of thought the only conclusions I can come up with is because they are either to expensive, to hard to take care of, or both.
As I said before I looked into this and see that there are very few research groups that work with chameleons. And so I was wondering if anyone knows of specific research groups that are working with chameleons and if so what they are researching and where they are located. I ask because I have become passionate about chameleons and am very interested in getting involved with researching pertaining to them.
Thanks and look forward to hearing back,
Joshua Seidman

 

[kinyonga]

The University of Guelph in conjunction with the Toronto zoo has been studying reproductive issues in chameleons for a few years now.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zoo.20318/abstract

Chris Anderson who posts here has been studying tongues.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/8...-lethal-when-its-chilly-outside/#.U2Q0tKU9l0s

A vet who used to treat my chameleon's was and may still be studying fungal infections in chameleons.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9523639

Viruses in chameleons are being studied in the states.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8445790

There are lots more links out there.

 

[Olimpia]

I know one university group was doing research regarding color change in male veileds, but I couldn't tell you more than that, I read the paper months ago.

You should have access as a student to all sorts of research papers through your university's online library, take advantage of it! You usually get access to an enormous number of online journals that you would otherwise have to pay for. I'm sure that if you run a search you'll be able to find more information.