Has anyone hatched baby chameleons and left with the mother naturally born?

[Mj442k]

Just asking this question for my own interest. Was thinking if anyone has hatched chameleon babies naturally without taking them away from the mother. What was the process and how did the mother act around the babies?

 

[kinyonga]

It would be very difficult to keep the eggs in the cage and get them to hatch. Also the female could eat them if she was hungry. You would have trouble feeding them and with the temperatures, etc...so I wouldn't even think about it.

 

[bobcochran]

I think you have it backwards. You mean if you somehow got the female (mother) to stay down close to the ground for 9 months where she deposited the eggs. Instead of returning to the upper branches where she is safer, can bask and absorb U.V., regain her strength and breed again in about a month. Not to mention the eggs incubate somewhere between 68-78F., which is not near warm enough for most (not all) chameleons. When the neonates do hatch and dig their way out of the ground they disperse as quickly as possible, this reduces competition between clutch mates foraging for food prey, and lessen the chances of a single predator devouring the entire clutch, etc..

 

[Mj442k]

Lets say this scenario, taking the eggs out and incubating yourself, then when hatched, release into the mothers cage.

 

[Dave85731]

She would eat them

 

[absolutbill]

In nature the mother will lay the eggs and then walk away. They do not have a maternal instinct to protect and care for their young.

 

[Scottsquatch]

They would end up as very expensive feeders!