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| Name: |
Cleo
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Age: |
Three months old
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| Gender: |
Female
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Kind: |
Veiled Chameleon
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| Home: |
New York, New York, USA
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Cleo
is a veiled chameleon. She has a great appetite and eats about 40
crickets a day. Her favorites are the treats she gets which include wax
worms and meal worms. Here, she is shedding. She currently sheds every
two to three weeks since she is growing very quickly. She changes colors through
out the day. When she basks in the sun, she sometimes turns purple!
Cleo is very special to me because she was an
unwanted "surplus" at the pet store. They gave her away for free
because most people ask for male chameleons who supposedly are more
decorated and colorful. But Cleo has beautiful stripes and cool color
changes as well. When she walks she pretends to be a leaf swaying in
the wind as part of her camouflage. And she has this funny hunting
ritual where she moves ever so slowly so that I can't even tell she is
moving unless I look away for a few minutes and when I turn back to her
she has moved a few millimeters. Then when she has patiently made her
way close to her food, she pounces, lightening fast, and her cool pink
tongue darts out (it's as long as she is) and captures her prey. She is
really goofy when I leave water running. I first noticed this when I
walked into the bathroom to wash my hands with her on my shoulder.
Since then, I have purchased an aquarium pump and leave a bowl of water
running for her during the day. She stares at it and will sometimes
hang by her prehensile tail on a branch just above the little make-shift
fountain.
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