There is a common belief, chameleons can not create pink colors on their bodies. Well, most species can not. One population of the Panther Chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) in and around the settlement Ankaramibe in the North of Mahajanga Province in the NW coast of Madagascar is however typical with males which can, when sleeping or when excited,...
well, they simply resemble the lichens...
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Kinyongia matschiei, shows the natural way how the shed the hemipenis rubbing the cloaca on branches while defecating
Kinyongia matschiei, called also monkeytail Chameleon because of its extremely long tail, is am amazing endemic to E Usambara Mts, TZ
The diet of the blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) is quite varied, primarily consisting of fruits and plant materials, with invertebrates supplementing their protein intake. Some populations have been documented to consume occasional vertebrates, such as birds, mice, scaly-tailed squirrels, and bush babies. Conversely, the golden monkey (C. m....
A unique footage of a female of the Giant Yellow Crested Three-Horned Jackson's Chameleon, Trioceros jacksonii, giving birth in Hawaii, in the Garden of Mary Lovein, recorded in 2009
Furcifer voeltzkowi was described as Chamaeleon voeltzkowi by Boöttger in 1893, named after Alfred Voeltzkow (1860 – 1947), German zoologist and botanist, who collected the type specimen at the type locality: Antema, Bembatuka Bay, Western Madagascar.
The hatching process of the Namaqua Desert Chameleon (Chamaeleo namaquensis} is described by Chantelle Bosch, the Namibian naturalist, photographer and guide as follows:
Incredible footage, artistic film, pitty that the info got twised in order to make a sensation...
Kinyongia cf. oxyrhina occurs on several isolatwd mountains or mountain ranges:
Kinyongia fischeri is one of the rarest reported Two-Blade-Horn-Chameleon species in the African continent. Described as first of all by Reichenow 1887, named after German herpetologist working in Hamburg, Johann Gustav Fischer (1819-1889).
Presented with a model of a predator bird (left), the Fiscal Shrike (Lanius collaris), chameleons (Bradypodion taeniabronchum) colour-matched their backgrounds much more closely than with a model of a snake (right). The Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) has poorer colour vision than the shrike, and therefore, it produced less vivid changes in the...
Tilbury, Colin R. & Krystal A. Tolley. 2015. Contributions to the Herpetofauna of the Albertine Rift: Two New Species of Chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae) from An isolated Montane Forest, south eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Zootaxa. 3905(3): 345–364. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.3.2
William R. Branch and Krystal A. Tolley. 2010. A New Species of Chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae: Nadzikambia) from Mount Mabu, central Mozambique. African Journal of Herpetology. 59:157-172. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1080/21564574.2010.516275
Pia J. Schucht, Peter T. Rühr, Benedikt Geier, Frank Glaw and Markus Lambertz. 2020. Armored with Skin and Bone: A Combined Histological and μCT‐Study of the Exceptional Integument of the Antsingy Leaf Chameleon Brookesia perarmata (Angel, 1933). Journal of Morphology. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21135
Pygmy Chameleons of the genus Rhampholeon represent a moderately diverse, geographi- cally circumscribed radiation, with most species (18 out of 19 extant taxa) limited to East Africa. The one exception is Rhampholeon spectrum, a species restricted to West-Central African rainforests. We set out to characterize the geographic basis of genetic...
Daniel F. Hughes, Krystal A. Tolley, Mathias Behangana, Wilber Lukwago, Michele Menegon, J. Maximilian Dehling, Jan Stipala, Colin R. Tilbury, Arshad M. Khan and Chifundera Kusamba. 2018. Cryptic Diversity in Rhampholeon boulengeri (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae), A Pygmy Chameleon from the Albertine Rift Biodiversity Hotspot. Molecular Phylogenetics and...
Böhme, Wolfgang 1997. Eine neue Chamäleonart aus der Calumma gastrotaenia-Verwandtschaft Ost-Madagaskars (A new species of chameleon from the Calumma gastrotaenia-group from eastern Madagascar). Herpetofauna. 19 (107): 5-10.
We describe Calumma vohibola sp. nov., a morphologically distinct chameleonspecies of the Calumma nasutum species group from littoral forest fragments of the northcentral east coast of Madagascar. Males and females of this species differ from all other species of the Calumma nasutum group by an almost absent rostral appendage, by acharacteristic...
During fieldwork carried out in January-February 1995 in the Strict Nature Reserve No. 9 (western Madagascar), a new species of dwarf chameleon (genus Brookesia) was discovered on the western slopes of the Antsingy forest. The inaccessible habitat of this new taxon consists of dense subhumid tropophile forest growing among the limestone blocks...
Fig 4. Live adult representatives for each species in the Furcifer verrucosus and F. oustaleti complexes. Letters correspond to clades on all other figures in this paper; males (m) on left and females (F) on right.
(a) F. verrucosus clade A (m: Fort Dauphin; f: Tsiaroa-Ampasy), (b) F. verrucosus clade B (m: Mangoky River; f: Ankatsakantsa Sud), (...
Micro-CT scans of skulls of Calumma roaloko sp. n. Male holotype KU 343178 in dorsal view (a) and lateral view (b), note the worm-like structure (presumably an endoparasite) in the throat of the holotype; female KU 343168 in dorsal view (c) and lateral view (d).
