Chameleons look goofy and fierce. They have v-shaped feet, so they can hold on to branches, tongues that shoot out so they can zap flies and mosquitoes, monitor eyes, and look like miniature dinosaurs with fans over their backs to stay cool in the tropics. Jackson's Chameleons have three horns like a Triceratops.
We had Horny the Jackson's Chameleon and his three horns one summer, between his tours of duty at the Science Lab in my grad school, and he spent most of his time standing on Mom's macrame belt on the wall, zapping flies and he occasional cockroach. He was perfectly happy there.
Mom would forget that Horny was there, and occasionally tell a guest about the macrame belt she made, bring the guest over, the guest would come face to face with the reptile and go "YAAAAH!" until Mom put Horny away.
We had land in the Catskills, and one day, our whole family was walking along the road, and we found a ditch created by very heavy rain. In the ditch were scores of tadpoles swimming around. We realized the ditch would dry out, leaving the tadpoles to die. We got a bunch of Mason jars and brought every tadpole we could find up to our stream, where we released them.
Three things happened:
1. We saw toads and frogs hopping around the area near our house for years.
2. We saw a dramatic reduction in flies and mosquitoes.
3. We heard toads and frogs making noise at night.
Despite the Biblical plague, frogs and toads are a pure good. They sit around, look fierce, make funny noises, but get rid of disease-spreading flies and mosquitoes. They make decent pets, calmly sitting in a miniature pond under a heat light to regulate their temperature, eating crickets.
I only have one problem with this story...
I have had both Chameleons and Frogs as pets.
Both animals are a PURE GOOD.
Chameleons look goofy and fierce. They have v-shaped feet, so they can hold on to branches, tongues that shoot out so they can zap flies and mosquitoes, monitor eyes, and look like miniature dinosaurs with fans over their backs to stay cool in the tropics. Jackson's Chameleons have three horns like a Triceratops.
We had Horny the Jackson's Chameleon and his three horns one summer, between his tours of duty at the Science Lab in my grad school, and he spent most of his time standing on Mom's macrame belt on the wall, zapping flies and he occasional cockroach. He was perfectly happy there.
Mom would forget that Horny was there, and occasionally tell a guest about the macrame belt she made, bring the guest over, the guest would come face to face with the reptile and go "YAAAAH!" until Mom put Horny away.
We had land in the Catskills, and one day, our whole family was walking along the road, and we found a ditch created by very heavy rain. In the ditch were scores of tadpoles swimming around. We realized the ditch would dry out, leaving the tadpoles to die. We got a bunch of Mason jars and brought every tadpole we could find up to our stream, where we released them.
Three things happened:
1. We saw toads and frogs hopping around the area near our house for years.
2. We saw a dramatic reduction in flies and mosquitoes.
3. We heard toads and frogs making noise at night.
Despite the Biblical plague, frogs and toads are a pure good. They sit around, look fierce, make funny noises, but get rid of disease-spreading flies and mosquitoes. They make decent pets, calmly sitting in a miniature pond under a heat light to regulate their temperature, eating crickets.
"What about the chameleon? What happened to him?" After turning the color of the floor, did he get away safely?