The association idea is key to a friendly chameleon I think (though I am not sure). My female veiled is not scared in the least bit of me. This might be because I hand feed her from varying distances (so my hand is close sometimes, though she knows it doesn't mean I am going to disturb her) and also because I handle her for transportation to a large ficus tree in the sun (and sometimes to show to people, though they only get to look, not touch).



Now my male on the other hand runs every which way and has even taken a few falls escaping my vulcan death grip (at least thats how he makes it out with his actions, I don't grab at all I just spread my fingers and put them at a higher point because I read chams enjoy being above all). When he is put into the large ficus he is happy/terrified. I think this is mostly due to his current caging arrangement and my inability to hand feed him (with the ficus if I get within a foot he'll run to the other side of the tree without a care that theres a tasty bug in my hand). I used to hand feed him and he used to be much friendlier. Just the other day when he was on my hand my girlfriend reached with a flat hand toward him (instead of using my verticle spread hand technique) and he lunged and almost bit her (he wasn't going to let go of me and he couldn't quite reach her). She is scared of him now.

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