Chamilo are docile and easily startled creatures. Often opting to hide in the poisonous lalo tree where they can hide among their fruit by hanging from their tails. While anxious, they are easily to tame as they're unwilling to defend themselves unless absolutely forced, at which point they will exude toxic compounds they have stored from their diet. It's popular among some circles to raise chamilo on a diet of recreational drugs in order to use their defense mechanism for the sake of getting inebriated.