Big News in the Summy Household

Child #2 holds his two veiled chameleons. The colorful one on the left is the male.

Our female veiled chameleon may be gravid!! As in, with eggs.

She is lumpy in the hip area. And has developed coloring that includes small blue-ish "robin egg" circles. Also, for the first time ever, she ventured to the bottom of the cage, presumably searching for somewhere to bury her eggs.

The female veiled sleeps on a fake branch.


It was truly heart-warming to see how the lumpy-hipped female veiled galvanized Child #2 into action. (Child #2 will turn 16 this summer. Yikes!). He googled all manner of info, then filled a five-gallon bucket with sand from Child #4's sandbox. He placed said bucket in the cage, a reptile bassinette, if you will.

To some, a 5-gallon bucket from Home Depot. For others, a veiled chameleon bassinette.


Quite frankly, I'm amazed the female ever agreed to "special time" with the male. His behavior toward her borders on abusive. He pushes her out of the way and eats his fill of crickets or wax worms before allowing her close to the bowl. He is not good father material. Although, in her defense, he's the only game in town. I imagine this is how she rationalized things about a month ago.

Will keep you posted regarding expected due dates, baby showers, meet-the-in-laws dinner, etc.

And a little bit of trivia: The verb "galvanize" came into our language around 1802 from the French verb galvanizer. Apparently, a physicist named Luigi Galvani was conducting experiments where he ran electric current through dead frogs' legs. I'm sorry I looked this up. I may be less inclined to use the verb now.

source:http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=galvanize