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captainmerkin · Key Member Joined: 06 May 2007 Posts: 400

Was fussing over one of my girls last night and picked her up gently to move her, she started buzzing and I could feel her vibrating...

is this normal? I have heard of pygmy chams doing it, but my other girl does not do this.

mcfluffin · CaptiveBred Addict! Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 943

Yeah...I think the Petr Necas book mentions it somewhere...they do have some irritated noises sometimes if you listen carefully. Don't know about yemens, but my panther does occasionally puff a bit of air, making a kind of weird noise that I couldn't quite catagorise...

Not really a squeak, or a puff....maybe halfway between Very Happy

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unbreakable · Key Member Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 212

keep an eye on it because it could be a respiratory problem, common in veileds, dont panick just see if you can find any threads that might contain information about it, sorry i cant be a bit more helpfull, i havnt kept veileds but i hear it is possible to make there habitat too humid, leading to this condition.

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captainmerkin · Key Member Joined: 06 May 2007 Posts: 400

I cant access that article without paying!

its not too humid, no signs of any trouble its only when I am in contact with her

Mememe · Site Moderator Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 2141

But you can read the first page which pretty much confirms it's nothing to worry about Very Happy

"Plant-borne vibration is a common mode of communication among insects, but its use in reptiles has never previously been reported. One of us (KEB) observed that in response to human touch, veiled chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus) produce a distinct vibration which emanates from the body just anterior to the front legs. We made accelerometer recordings from plants on which chameleons were placed and determined that conspicuous vibratory signals were produced by males and females in response to human touch. When an adult male was placed on a plant with an adult female, it produced a variety of vibratory signals which varied in their gross-temporal and frequency characteristics. We hypothesize that these vibrations serve as vegetation-borne vibratory communication signals because (1) they were barely audible or inaudible to humans, whose auditory sensitivity exceeds that of chameleons but were easily detected by the accelerometer attached to a plant at 0.1 m distance and (2) they were produced in courtship and disturbance contexts in which one might expect communication to take place."
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captainmerkin · Key Member Joined: 06 May 2007 Posts: 400

its trying to communicate, will modify an etchasketch for its use tomorrow

thanks

David Maguire · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject:

the dwarf chams also do this when they are upset
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kinyonga · Contributing Member Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 126

Try this...
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/5014/hoot.html

Hhttp://www.adcham.com/html/taxonomy/species/chcalyptratus.htmlere is information on what other species vibrate...

unbreakable · Key Member Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 212

how strange! interesting never the less, i cant get the image of chameleons humming along to star wars out of my head! lmao