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alan i tried the spot light thing and it didn't work....i did find a bird with it though....it was pretty cool...closetest i've ever been to a wild bird.

anyways i still haven't found the cham dead on the ground so im hoping he is still alive (no birds got him hopfully)

the weather is starting to cool of and soon the leaves will start to change...i just hope it wont be too cold for him.

any suggestions on how to find him??? from anyone?

also if i dont find him after the leaves have fallen off are you selling yours alan?

oH, i forgot to tell you, I have a super powerful chameleon magnet you can use, lol, just kidding. I forgot to tell you I found my big male two nights ago, he was in a mulberry tree, at night, about 8 feet from the ground towards the END of a branch, I think chams "roost" at the ends of branches, that is the tip, which is all a run-on sentence.lol. His tail is what caught my eye, nothing else looks like a curley cham tail in the trees around here, plus he kinda "glowed" or "stuck out", yellowish looking, under the spotlight which i have hooked up to a car battery which has a handle and which I lug around looking for katydids and him. He was in the tree beside a trail on the south side of the tree where he probably could get sun all day, the tree has begun to lose its leaves and there are yellow ones on it, but he was a different color yellow. I have been looking
about two or three times a week for a month, he was within 50 feet from where he escaped, with many small trees and vines between it and where he was. HOPE THIS HELPS. Just remember you must be patient, don't give up dude. It will be easier the more leaves fall and I think they prefer more open trees during dry weather and cooler temps. Odds are any native bird would find a male Jax a very intemidating thing, I really dont think he is dead.

>>alan i tried the spot light thing and it didn't work....i did find a bird with it though....it was pretty cool...closetest i've ever been to a wild bird.
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>>anyways i still haven't found the cham dead on the ground so im hoping he is still alive (no birds got him hopfully)
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>>the weather is starting to cool of and soon the leaves will start to change...i just hope it wont be too cold for him.
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>>any suggestions on how to find him??? from anyone?
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>>also if i dont find him after the leaves have fallen off are you selling yours alan?
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2.5 Jacksonii Xantholophus (two red phase fem}
35 Jacksonii Xantholophus neonates
0.0.2 Phelsuma M. Grandis
2.3 Anolis C. with 3 neonates
1 neonate texas blue spiny

My 5 month old female Panther escaped at my lake house and was found 5 weeks later within 30 feet of her outdoor pen. I found her early in the morning sunning around 8am. She was sitting on a low branch of a sugar maple tree overhanging the lake. I would look early in the day or at night with a flash light concentrating low branches of trees and bushes. I have lost and found a lot of chameleons and Geckos. Don't give up hope.
good luck.

I lost one of my first Jackson Chameleons when I lived in Barber's Pt Hawaii about 9 years ago.
I let him out outside, and put him in my small (15 foot) ficus tree. The phone rang, I went inside and forgot about him.
Came back about 3 hours later and he was gone. Never did find him. There was a HUGE banyan tree about 20 feet from the little ficus tree. I suspect he climbed the banyan and remained there for a good long time.
Maybe someone out there might be familiar with catching chameleons in Hawaii and could suggest something for catching your little guy.
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