June 21, 2009 11:30 by
meg
Photo: Meg Lomax Source: Museum Victoria
Discovery Centre resident Leon the Chameleon is a reptile, and as we know, reptiles often shed their skins - Leon is no different...
Recently, he has been looking a little scruffy, with large translucent pieces of scaley skin hanging off bits off his body, waiting to drop off. Apparently, the temptation to pull these bits off for him proved too great for one of our Live Exhibits keepers who took to him with a pair of tweezers in an effort to tidy him up a bit.
The result was a plastic bag full of pieces of chameleon skin sitting on my desk.
Photo: Meg Lomax Source: Museum Victoria
So after a good shed, he's back to his handsome self now.
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