Chameleon question

[Karen]

Awww, rest in peace, little wild one. The flies in chameleon heaven are slow-moving and never poison, I promise!

[karyn674]

[Awww, rest in peace, little wild one. The flies in chameleon heaven are slow-moving and never poison, I promise!

Oh Karen! That's just too sweet!!!

Genny, you're right about dying issues, I hate it too, especially when I start getting attached!

Cathy, even Lulu runs when she sees the fly swatter in my hand!!! I would catch them even for you, if you'd like them....a little fly pie anyone?! Hm!

Jokes apart! This leads me to some questions......

Are we poisoning our food? Pesticides needs to be stronger and stronger, because pests are adapting to it.
Do you wash your fruit and veggies well before eating or cooking them?

You'll better do!

Lately I received an email about waxed imported fruit. The wax helps to mantain a nice colour for longer and prevent it from discolouring, but you cannot use it's peel for cakes and so on!

So, please be careful. Man has the power to even destroy his own nature...imagine others!

[kokopup]

I am really sorry to hear about your Chameleon. I don't guess i have ever seen a real Chameleon in person. Since i was a little boy I have been misinformed about a lizard that is common here. I have always thought that the Indo-Pacific gecko was a Chameleon because they changed color. This is the Gecko that looks like the Geico commercial Gecko. I don't guess they have Geico commercials in Malta so you wouldn't know what I'm talking about.

I'm glad you posted pictures of your Chameleon because I found I had been mistaken believing all my life that we had Chameleon here in Alabama.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I'm really sorry to hear about this little guys misfortune. It's awesome you tried to help him.

I am really sorry to hear about your Chameleon. I don't guess i have ever seen a real Chameleon in person. Since i was a little boy I have been misinformed about a lizard that is common here. I have always thought that the Indo-Pacific gecko was a Chameleon because they changed color. This is the Gecko that looks like the Geico commercial Gecko. I don't guess they have Geico commercials in Malta so you wouldn't know what I'm talking about.

I'm glad you posted pictures of your Chameleon because I found I had been mistaken believing all my life that we had Chameleon here in Alabama.

A lot of people down here wrongly call Green Anoles "chameleons" because they can quickly turn from green to brown. They kind of look similar to the Geico gecko, could this be what you're thinking of? We have Indo-Pacific geckos here too, but they're usually a translucent pink-grey color.

[karyn674]

kokopup no we do not have Geico commercials in Malta but thanks to you now I know....I googled it

Now the following is extracted from Wikipedia:

The family Chamaeleonidae are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, and the possession by many of a prehensile tail, crests or horns on their distinctively shaped heads, and the ability of some to change color. Uniquely adapted for climbing and visual hunting, the approximately 160 species of chameleon range from Africa, Madagascar, Spain and Portugal, across south Asia, to Sri Lanka, have been introduced to Hawaii and California, and are found in warm habitats that vary from rain forest to desert conditions.

Now the ones we have in Malta do change colours to camouflage and become invisible with the surroundings. Here in Malta people also tell you that they have the ability to change in all colours except red, so if you put a chameleon on red it will die, due to heart failure, trying to turn red. I don't know if this is true, because obviously it is not something worth trying!!

Something which is also very interesting with this particular animal is that it can move and see independantly from each eye. So he must have at least two brains. How intelegent is that!

[kokopup]

A lot of people down here wrongly call Green Anoles "chameleons" because they can quickly turn from green to brown. They kind of look similar to the Geico gecko, could this be what you're thinking of? We have Indo-Pacific geckos here too, but they're usually a translucent pink-grey color.

Since I just found out I had been wrong i tried to find a Lizard in the Native to Alabama list and the picture I found looked like the Lizard I have always called a chameleon. I think the Green Anoles is also suppose to be common here. I do not think either is native to the state. I believe we get a lot of critters in Alabama that come in through the port of Mobile. The fire ant that has taken over here came in through Mobile. I know the little Green/brown guy (Gecko?) I have in my yard number in the thousands and are everywhere