A video from Brooklyn shows a man riding a city bus with a chameleon on his head. The reptile later appears on a bus grab handle, according to reporting on the footage.
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The moment was captured on camera and shared by Central Oregon Daily, which reported that a New York City commuter captured the man riding the bus in Brooklyn with the chameleon perched on his head. According to the outlet, the chameleon didn’t stay in that spot for the whole ride, eventually climbing down to grip a grab handle on the bus.
The available account does not establish the man’s identity, the bus route or the time of the sighting. It also does not confirm where the chameleon came from or whether it belonged to the man.
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Transit rules and reptile context
According to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, pets on subways and buses must be in a bag or other container and carried in a way that does not annoy other riders; the video does not establish whether the policy applied to this sighting or was followed. In a separate incident, the Daily Mail reported on 15 October 2014 that an unidentified man handled two snakes aboard New York’s C train, a subway sighting distinct from this Brooklyn bus video. The San Diego Zoo explains that a chameleon’s specially grouped toes help it grasp branches. That natural-history detail does not establish anything about the animal’s condition or behavior on the bus…