Calumma furcifer
First description: (Vaillant & Grandidier, 1880) Origin of the species name: The French zoologists Léon Louis Vaillant and Guillaume Grandidier worked together in the French Zoological Society on various publications. They named this chameleon...
Calumma gallus
First description: (Günther, 1877) Origin of the species name: The German zoologist Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, then director of the Zoological Department of the Natural History Museum in London (Great Britain), described this...
Egg-binding
What means egg-binding? Egg-binding describes the fact that a female cannot lay her ready-to-lay eggs. Causes There are many things that can cause a chameleon to be egg bound: The eggs are too much...
Terrarium lighting
Naturally, lighting belongs naturally to the species-appropriate terrarium. The lighting is secured by different lamps. In the last decades, a lot has happened in this area so that the imitation of nature-like lighting conditions...
Outdoor enclosures
Many chameleon species can be kept outside in Europe at least temporarily. Chameleons, like many other reptiles, benefit greatly from the real solar radiation, various weather influences and the natural temperature development in outdoor...
Publications
If there is still time besides our full-time jobs, our own chameleons, Madagascar trips, collecting data, and other leisure activities, we also occasionally write articles for magazines and scientific journals. We will list them...
Building instructions for a fast, converted outdoor enclosure
If you quickly need a spacious outdoor enclosure for summer but don’t necessarily feel like sawing every part to size yourself, this proposal for an outdoor enclosure is a good choice. The aviary has...
Defense and escape behavior of tree dwelling chameleons
Among the tree-dwelling chameleons on Madagascar are the genera Furcifer and Calumma. Among them are both the largest and the most colorful species. They have a whole range of threatening behavior which they can...
Shedding
Shedding Chameleons grow for a lifetime. Since their skin cannot grow with them, they have to shed it from time to time. This process is called molting or shedding. The anatomical term is ecdysis,...
Wild caught or captive bred?
If you want to buy a chameleon, you will need to decide sooner or later whether you like to have a captive bred (cb) individual or a wild caught (wc) chameleon. Generally, in our...
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