chameleon

[ragman]

just back from 2 weeks in ovacik and went a walk up the lycian way,there was a squashed chameleon,been run over by a vehicle on the first stretch of walk,would love to have seen a live one in its natural environment,has anyone else seen one,are they common or rare?the one i saw was about 9  inch long and was a bright greeny yellow with a long curly tail.

[ovaciksarah]

We found one while walking the dogs in the mountain, my son has alw.
ays wanted one, so put it on his shoulder for the walk.  Think it was a bit traumitised as sons hair is blonde, highlighted by the son and iyt didn,t know what to change to.
Having looked it all up on the internet, they haved loads of parasites and are scared so don,t make good pets so we put him on the balcony in the wiseria and he,s still there.
There are quite a few here but are very hard to see like porcupines

[villajadore]

We had one in our Jasmin Bush by the front door - it was quite amazing to see - huge spherical eyes and amazing grumpy looking mouth!
I have pics of it on my PC

[KKOB]

I've seen 4 chameleons in 5 years.

I've found plenty of porcupine quills while out walking in the mountains but never seen an animal yet.

[geordieboy]

We had one in our garden when we first moved out here,our next door neighbour had a pine martin in their garden,used to pinch the cat and dog food.

[peecee]

Are they cameleons, I thought they were lizards?  Aren't cameleons 'rounder' in the face and much slower moving?

[ovaciksarah]

Yep, cameleons are slow moving, bigger and change vcolour according to their invironment

[scorcher]

Sounds just like our friend Mandelson...!

[GordonA]

Here are a couple of pics of a chameleon Loz & I came across on the way to the Museum at Kargi a couple of years ago. I removed him from the road, & put him on the grass verge, where he almost immediately changed to a greeny colour.
Gordy

[peecee]

Wow, never seen one here