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Carlton
at Wed Dec 22 23:17:55 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Carlton ]
SOME more socially tolerant cham species can be found in loose groups in wild habitat (but we're talking a spaced group of bushes or trees, not the usual captive cage situation), often spaced around a dominant male. Melleri can be kept in a loose 1-male group in a very large greenhouse for example. I have heard of veileds free ranged in trees an indoor pool room with 1 dominant male and female. It could be that the females in this group had accepted the male as the local dominant, and their pecking order was upset when he died. The females then had to re-arrange themselves in terms of dominance. And, how do chams advertise their status? by coloration and markings. This is not to say we can start keeping all chams in groups, but that some species have been, including jax, melleri and some fischeri.
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