Someone Just Noticed That Chameleons Will Hold Onto Anything You Give Them, And It’s Hilarious

As it turns out, chameleons can entertain the crowd even when they’re not changing colors. Michigan-based artist Emma Ward has shared pictures of her pet reptile Olive grabbing tiny weapon props and the internet just couldn’t handle it.

Emma’s tweet has been liked almost 400,000 times and retweeted nearly 170,000 times, making Olive one of the most popular chameleons on the web. It even got a photo-response from a flying squirrel owner whose pets share the same hobby!

“Knowing she likes to grasp anything that goes in her hands, I thought Lego swords and Evangelion weapons would be an interesting idea,” Ward told Chron.com. She got the nearly 2-year-old Olive in April 2016 from a reptile exhibition in Detroit, and they have been best friends ever since.

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Michigan-based artist Emma Ward just had an amazing realization…

Someone Just Noticed That Chameleons Will Hold Onto Anything You Give Them, And It's Hilarious

Soon, other animal lovers whose pets share the same hobby responded

Someone Just Noticed That Chameleons Will Hold Onto Anything You Give Them, And It's Hilarious

People even started imagining what adventures Olive would take her new inventory on

Someone Just Noticed That Chameleons Will Hold Onto Anything You Give Them, And It's Hilarious

And while the army of like-minded reptiles grew

Someone Just Noticed That Chameleons Will Hold Onto Anything You Give Them, And It's Hilarious

With many adorable chameleons joining in

Someone Just Noticed That Chameleons Will Hold Onto Anything You Give Them, And It's Hilarious

The number of their admirers climbed as well

Someone Just Noticed That Chameleons Will Hold Onto Anything You Give Them, And It's Hilarious

Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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g90814 7 years ago

Not flying squirrels... they are sugar gliders. You'd think the owner would know the difference.

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Debra Kennedy 7 years ago

Definitely. If she doesn't even know what they are, how the hell is she giving them the right food and care?

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Luca 7 years ago

Agree, but perhaps... her first language isn't English and she didn't know the word; she didn't want people to google on what they are

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Lazy Panda 7 years ago

I was just thinking that

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Sebastian Melmoth 7 years ago

up vote for your keen eye,but some people call something according to what they thought they were for the longest time, even when they realise,or are corrected...and go on calling it the same thing. not really a big deal considering the real problems in the world we have to deal with. 😀

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