Chameleons: Everything About Purchase, Care, Nutrition, And Breeding (Complete Pet Owner's Manual) Paperback – Illustrated, January 1, 2005

I adore this book. I had borrowed it from my local library, read the whole thing and learned a lot. It's from the perspective of someone who was in the cutting edge of keeping chameleons in the 90s, and he provides a fascinating perspective of the history of chameleon keeping as well as his personal experiences. An invaluable resource when it comes to the descriptions of different types of chameleons and their natural habitat and care. I love it!I had to buy my own copy because I knew I would read it and reference it for years to come.

This book tells a lot of information about the different kinds of chameleons. The feeding, misting and handling of them and more. It is a great book for beginners on caring for chameleons.

My favorite thing about this book is that it details species accounts for a number of species other than veiled, panther, and Jackson's chams. (The others are: Johnston's, Usambara Giant 3-horned, Poroto Mt. 3-horned, High-casqued, two-striped, Elliot's, Uganda mountain chams, Cameroon Mt [Tr. montium], 4-horned, carpet, oustalet, verrucosus, graceful, flap-necked, senegal, Meller's, Fischer's, and a few species of pygmy chameleons). It's inclusion of a glossary is also very helpful, as are the random "How-to" sections (build an incubator, understand your cham...)I would have liked to see more of a guide how to care for each species though, instead of just the general habitat info it entails (which is still very helpful though) as well as a mention of Trioceros cristatus because I'm interested in them particularly.Noticeably absent from the book is any mention of Parson's chameleons which are only referenced in the caption of a picture at the end of the book. Odd, considering they're one of the most highly sought after species, if not the most.Overall, a great book with tons of interesting pictures of some rarely-seen chams in the pet trade, and replete with helpful information on caring for your cham.

The book was somewhat superficial

My grandson LOVED it!

everything you need on care and feeding chameleons

AS ADVERTISED

I bought this book to help me create a suitable environment for my veiled chameleon. The information I needed was printed within the pages but it was an extremely dull read. It was common to find scientific jargon without definition. The book is written by scientists whom I'm not convinced even like these wonderful, expressive creatures, it is full of lifeless facts which lead me abandon the book after reading only the pertinent chapters. To my horror, a crucial detail about female chameleon health was only mentioned in the breeding chapter, a chapter I had no need for since I had no intentions of breeding my pet. I found out too late that most female chameleons die egg-bound if unfertilized. Should this information have shown up in the Health chapter (which deals with very little in 4 short pages) my chameleon would still be alive. Previously, I read the entire 280 pages of The tarantula keeper's guide by Stanley A. Schultz, et al, this book is animated and written by a couple who truly love their hobby, it was a pleasure to learn as much about tarantulas as possible. Although, I am sure there is a book out there that does the same for chameleons, this one isn't it.