Chameleon literature available

Chameleon literature available

by Alex Negro Abzugeben AG Interna

A long-standing member of our working group has kindly provided us with a whole series of books and papers on chameleons and other reptiles, which are now being made available for the benefit of the Chameleon Working Group (AG Chamäleons). Among them are some very old original treasures and many out-of-print editions of books. All books and papers can be sent by post (from Germany), with shipping costs added to the price. If you are interested, please send an email to info@agchamaeleons.de . Below is a list of the available literature with information on its condition. Photos of all items are available on request or here.

1 Philippe Philippe de Vosjoli: Essential Care of Chameleons
Paperback, 72 pages, 3rd edition from 2004, out of print
Price: €10
Condition: Very good, inside flawless, outside with slight wear to corners and edges

2 Wolfgang Schmidt, Klaus Tamm, Erich Wallikewitz: Chamäleons, Drachen unsrer Zeit
Paperback, 160 pages, 2nd edition from 1996
Price: €10
Condition: Very good, inside flawless, outside with slight wear to corners and edges

3 Rolf Müller, Nicolá Lutzmann, Ulrike Walbröl: Furcifer pardalis, das Pantherchamäleon
Paperback, 127 pages, 1st edition from 2004, out of print
Price: €10
Condition: almost like new, minimal wear to corners on the outside

4 Dr. Wolfgang Uthmöller: Schlangen wie ich sie sah
Hardcover, 127 pages, probably from 1948
Price: €20
Condition: very good for its age, pages naturally yellowed, edges and cover stained in places, remnants of old stickers inside the cover, pages themselves in perfect condition.

5 Joseph Nicolai Laurenti: Austriaci Viennensis Specimen medicum exhibens Synopsin Reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austriacorum
Paperback, 248 pages, reprint with English translation from 2005
Price: €25
Condition: like new

6 James B. Murphy: Chameleons: Johann von Fischer and other perspectives
Paperback, 123 pages, 1st edition from 2005
Price: €15
Condition: very good, minimal wear to corners and very slight creases on the outside, inside in perfect condition

7 Vincent A. Wagner: The life of the chameleon
Paperback, 32 pages, 2nd edition from 1987
Condition: good to very good, cover slightly worn on the edges and corners (see photo), inside in perfect condition

8 Philippe de Vosjoli: True chameleons Part II, Notes on popular species, diseases and disorders
Paperback, 28 pages, 1st edition 1990, out of print
Price: €15
Condition: good, cover with storage stains and minimal creases, interior flawless

9 Philippe de Vosjoli: True Chameleons Part I Husbandry
Paperback, 36 pages, 1st edition 1990, out of print
Price: €15
Condition: good, cover with minor stains, spine slightly bumped, interior flawless

10 Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences: A field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Madagascar
Paperback, 480 pages, 2nd edition from 1994
Price: €5
Condition: very good, edges and corners bumped, inside flawless

11 Krystal Tolley, Marius Burger: Chameleons of Southern Africa
Paperback, 100 pages, 1st edition from 2007
Price: €15
Condition: almost like new, corners and edges minimally bumped

12 Michaela Jötzlaff: Das Helmchamäleon (Trioceros) hoehnelli
Paperback, 63 pages, 1st edition from 2008
Price: €10
Condition: like new, inside with dedication and name

13 Rudolf Malkmus: Die Amphibien und Reptilien Portugals, Madeiras und der Azoren
Paperback, 98 pages, 1st edition from 1995
Price: €15
Condition: very good, minor stains on the cover and edges, inside flawless

14 Francois LeBerre, R.D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett: The Chameleon Handbook
Paperback, 128 pages, 2nd edition from 2000
Price: €15
Condition: like new, price sticker on the back of the cover

15 R.D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett: Chameleons, a complete pet owner’s manual
Paperback, 103 pages, 1st edition from 1995
Price: 10 €
Condition: very good, corners and edges slightly bumped, spine faded

16 Günther Masurat: Vermehrung von Chamäleons
Hardcover, 143 pages, 1st edition from 2005
Price: 15 €
Condition: very good, corners slightly bumped, inside like new

17 Gaston-Francois de Witte: Les Caméléons de l’Afrique Centrale
Paperback, > 200 pages, presumably 1st edition from 1965, out of print
Price:  40 €
Condition: very good, spine faded, edges minimally bumped, pencil notes on first page inside, interior flawless

18 E.-R. Brygoo: Faune de Madagascar, XXXIII Reptiles Sauriens Chamaeleonidae Genre Chamaeleo
Paperback, 318 pages, 1st edition from 1971
Price: €40
Condition: good, cover yellowed, edges of spine clearly bumped, both corners of back cover missing; inside completely flawless

19 Philippe de Vosjoli, Gary Ferguson: Care and Breeding of Chameleons
Paperback, 128 pages, 1st edition from 1995, out of print
Price: €15
Condition: good to very good, cover scuffed, especially at the corners and edges, with small tears and creases, spine faded, inside in perfect condition

20 Rolf Müller, Wolfgang Schmidt: Stummelschwanzchamäleons der Gattung Rieppeleon Paperback, 95 pages, 1st edition from 2008
Price: 10 €
Condition: very good, edges bumped in places, dedication by the authors on the first page, otherwise inside in perfect condition

21 Fitzinger’s Systema Reptilium
Paperback, 115 pages, reprint from 1973, out of print
Price: €30
Condition: small note in pencil on the first page, otherwise flawless; spine slightly faded, corners and edges slightly bumped

22 Henkel, Schmidt: Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands, Seychelles and Comoros
Hardcover, 312 pages, 1st edition from 1995
Price: €10
Condition: good to very good, corners slightly bumped, cover faded, interior flawless

23 J.E. Gray’s The Zoological Miscellany
Paperback, 90 pages, 1st edition from 1971
Price: €10
Condition: good to very good, spine and parts of the cover discoloured/faded, otherwise flawless

24 William R. Branch, Aaron M. Bauer: The herpetological contributions of Sir Andrew Smith
Paperback, 85 pages, 1st edition from 2005
Price: €15
Condition: like new

25 Charles Klaver, Wolfgang Böhme: Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria) with special reference to hemipenis morphology
Paperback, 64 pages, 1st edition from 1986
Condition: minor damage to spine, spine faded, otherwise very good

26 Robert Mertens, Willi Henning, Heinz Wermuth: Das Tierreich, eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen
Paperback, 38 pages, 1st edition from 1966
Condition: very good, corners and edges bumped, pencil note on the first page, otherwise flawless inside

27 A. E. Gunther: The miscellaneous autobiographical manuscripts of John Edward Gray (1800-1875)
Paperback, 245 pages, 1st edition from 1980
Price: €10
Condition: good to very good, pencil note on cover, cover with minor creases and stains, interior flawless

28 A.S. Rand: Notes on the Chamaeleo bitaeniatus complex
Paperback, 30 pages, 1st edition from 1963
Price: €10
Condition: very good, minor stains on the bottom of the cover, spine faded, edges ditto, interior flawless

29 Robert Mertens: The Chameleon of Pemba Island
2 pages from 1964
Price: €10
Condition: very good, minimal creases on the top edge

30 Separate of a paper published by The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature on behalf of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
3 pages stapled, from 1971
Price: €10
Condition: very good, cover with crease in upper corner and very small spots

31 Prof. Dr. Robert Mertens: Live-bearing three-horned chameleons
Issue 7/8 Natur und Volk from 1949, 5 pages
Price:
Condition: very good, slight creases, interior flawless

32 Thomas Barbour: Two new species of chameleons
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Vol. XVI, 1903, 1 page
Price: €15
Condition: very good

33 Zoologischer Anzeiger from 10 April 1893
Price: €25
Condition: very good, title page with stamp and handwritten note, otherwise flawless for its age

34 A. Stanley Rand: A new subspecies of Chamaeleo jacksonii Boulenger and a key to the species of three-horned chameleons
Breviora, Museum of Comparative Zoology No. 99, 4 pages from 1958

Price: €15
Condition: very good, note on the top right of the title page, slight creases

35 Claudia Schnieper, Max Meier: Das Chamäleon, Meisterschütze und Verwandlungskünstler
Hardcover, 40 pages, 2nd edition 1988
Price: €5
Condition: very good, minimal marks on the cover, slight discolouration of the inner page edges

36 Friedrich Wilhelm Henkel, Wolfgang Schmidt: Agamen im Terrarium
Hardcover, 151 pages, 1st edition 1997
Price: €10
Condition: very good, two corners of the cover clearly bumped, tiny tear in the spine, otherwise flawless

37 Martin Eisentraut: Im Schatten des Mongo-ma-loba
Hardcover, 240 pages, 1st edition 1982
Price: €5
Condition: good to very good, cover faded with minor creases, corners slightly bumped, small pencil note on first page, interior flawless

38 Gunther Köhler: Inkubation von Reptilieneiern
Hardcover, 205 pages, 1st edition from 1997
Price: €10
Condition: good to very good, cover significantly faded, otherwise flawless

39 Kameleon Vereniging Nederland: Chameleons, a fascinating hobby
Paperback, 96 pages, Lacerta 64-5/6 from 2006
Price:
Condition: very good, corners and edges minimally bumped

40 Martin Eisentraut: The vertebrate fauna of Fernando Poo and West Cameroon
Bonner Zoologische Monographien No. 3, 1973
Price: €20
Condition: good to very good, cover faded in places, edges and corners bumped

41 Annals of the South African Museum Cape Town, Vol. 61, 1973
Paperback, 160 pages
Price: €40
Condition: good, cover with various creases and stains, interior flawless

42 Herpetozoa 18(3/4) from 2005
Paperback, pages 97-208
Price: €20
Condition: like new

44 E.-R. Brygoo: Faune de Madagacar 47, Reptiles Sauriens Chamaeleonidae: Genre Brookesia et complement pour le genre Chamaeleo
Paperback, 174 pages, from 1978
Price: €35
Condition: very good, crease and small tear in the spine, inside in perfect condition

45 Linda J. Davison: Chameleons, their care and breeding
Paperback, 112 pages, edition from 1997
Price: €25
Condition: very good, dedication by the author on the first page (without name), slight crease at top right, cover with several very small spots

46 Draco Terraristik special issue Madagascar
No. 19, Volume 5, 3-2004; paperback, 96 pages
Price: €20
Condition: like new

47 Draco Terraristik Special Issue Chameleons
No. 1/2000, Volume 1(1), 96 pages
Price: €20
Condition: like new

49 Verenigingsblad van de Kameleonvereniging Nederland No. 1, 2004
28 pages
Price: €5
Condition: good to very good, punched and cover slightly yellowed, inside flawless

50 Treatises of the Senckenberg Natural History Society, No. 442
Robert Mertens: Herpetological Findings from a Trip to Cameroon
Paperback, 60 pages, 1938
Price: €35
Condition: very good for its age, cover with a very small tear at the top, spine bumped, a small piece missing at the bottom, above which the spine is torn, cover and pages yellowed at the edges, first page inside with small stains, everything else inside in perfect condition

Panther chameleon disposed of at recycling centre

Panther chameleon disposed of at recycling centre

by Alex Negro Abzugeben General topics

A panther chameleon in Bavaria owes its life to a lucky coincidence. An irresponsible owner abandoned the animal in a cold polystyrene box at the Eichenau recycling centre. An attentive passer-by, who was taking cardboxes to the recycling centre himself, heard scratching noises and opened the lonesome box. The reptile rescue centre in Munich was informed immediately, which took in the hypothermic chameleon and is now looking after it. The animal had obviously not received any medical care recently.

It is to be hoped that the original owner can be identified and faces an appropriate penalty. In some cases, the abandonment of animals even constitutes a criminal offence – in this case, the reptile was likely to die. ‘Lucifer’, as the panther chameleon was named, was simply lucky – and will soon be hoping for a great new home with a greater sense of responsibility. Anyone interested can contact the rescue centre.

Addendum 03.03.2025: The case actually played out a little differently. The alleged finder of the abandoned panther chameleon has since turned out to be the original owner of the animal. A report has been filed.

Photos: The animal found, photographed by and at the reptile rescue centre, Munich

Interested parties wanted for breeding project with Chamaeleo calyptratus calcarifer

Interested parties wanted for breeding project with Chamaeleo calyptratus calcarifer

by Alex Negro Abzugeben Projects

The larger subspecies of the Veiled Chameleon, Chamaeleo calyptratus calcarifer, from the Tihama on the Arabian Peninsula has received little attention in the herpetoculture hobby in recent years. It is therefore not surprising that notes on this subspecies are not particularly frequent in the current literature and that there is also a lack of husbandry and breeding reports. Sophie Obermaier, a member of AG Chamäleons from Berlin, would like to change this and breed the species in the long term. She herself has several adults of the species and already has over 50 eggs that are currently being incubated. Anyone who has had experience with the subspecies, would like to participate by keeping a few animals themselves or would like to take on young animals for scientific work is cordially invited to contact Sophie by email at chartar.0702@gmail.com.

(Deutsch) Jemenchamäleons suchen neue Halter

(Deutsch) Jemenchamäleons suchen neue Halter

by Alex Negro Abzugeben

Two Veiled Chameleons arrived at the reptile rescue centre in Munich yesterday. Both animals were confiscated and will not be returned to their original owners, so they will probably be released for rehoming shortly. They are two adult females who so far appear to be healthy. The results of the blood check-up and the quarantine at the rescue centre are still pending. However, anyone who is already interested in the two or one of the females is welcome to contact the rescue centre now. A questionnaire for interested parties can be found on their website.

Photo: One of the female Veiled Chameleons, photographed at the reptile rescue centre, Munich

Calendars for sale

Calendars for sale

by Alex Negro Abzugeben AG Interna

We still have a few calendars to give away! Of course, the calendars don’t start in January, but in June 2024 and extend beyond our next conference into June 2025. They contain many fantastic chameleon photos from our last photo competition – finally there are changing chameleons for the wall. ;) The format is 30 x 30 cm, the print is very high quality. To the right of the dates you have the option of entering dates or notes for each day. Cost: €20 plus shipping. If you would like to secure one of the last copies, simply send an e-mail to info@agchamaeleons.de !

Addendum: All calendars have now been sold.

 

Panther chameleons looking for new homes

Panther chameleons looking for new homes

by Alex Negro Abzugeben General topics

A long-standing member of the AG Chameleons is looking for new owners for ten panther chameleons (Furcifer pardalis) at short notice. There are ten females, including animals between 10 months and three years old. Four females belong to the local form Ambilobe, five to the local form Sambava. The animals are available individually or in groups free of charge. If you are interested, please write to us at info@agchamaeleons.de for further information.

Trioceros jacksoniis looking for a new home

Trioceros jacksoniis looking for a new home

by Alex Negro Abzugeben AG Interna General topics

A keeper has contacted us as AG Chamäleons because he is looking for new keepers for his three Trioceros jacksonii jacksonii. Two males and one female (2.1) are for sale. One of the males was bought in 2020 already adult. Together with a female that unfortunately died, it then had offspring, of which two still remain with the owner. The two offspring are a male and a female born in November 2020. All three chameleons eat very well and are not used to daily handling. If you are interested in adopting the animals, please send an email to info@agchamaeleons.de.

Addendum 27.09.2023: All three animals have found a new owner.