Chameleons
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One of my neighbor's exotics. This chameleon is native to the Saudi Peninsula - Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
Slowly showing more and more coloration, this Panther Chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) will have much more red streaking his body in about a year's time. You can already see this coloration coming in around his eyes and mouth, with light flourishes painting his legs and abdomen. He's got loads of crickets to eat before then, though--he eats over a dozen a day!
And chameleons really are quite evolved! Seemingly every facet of their being is highly specialized for survival, from their gripping, pincer like feet, to their prehensile tails, to their separately-swiveling eyes, to their color-shifting skin, to their darting tongues. Most chameleons share these incredible traits, be they tiny Leaf Chameleons (like the smallest of all, Brookesia micra, which grows to only an inch in length) or the Parson's Chameleon, which grows to over 25 inches in length, or the size of a house cat!
This panther chameleon, named Queso, lives in captivity.
Panther chameleons are diurnal, which means that they are most active during the day. They spend their days foraging in the trees, searching for insects. They are arboreal, which means that they live in the trees, rather than on the ground. Males are particularly territorial, and will patrol and protect their territories from other males. The largest males have the most productive territories, with a wide variety of food sources.
Houttuynia cordata, also known as fish mint, fish leaf, rainbow plant, chameleon plant, heart leaf, fish wort, or Chinese lizard tail, is one of two species in the genus Houttuynia. It is a flowering plant native to Southeast Asia. It grows in moist, shady locations.
This is Chameleon 2 from the colouring book:
Intricate Ink ANIMALS IN DETAIL by Tim Jeffs.
(Number 7 of 50.)
This one coloured with Koh-I-Noor Aquarell woodless coloured sticks which blend with water.
Before starting I did wonder whether it was wearing a rugby shirt and a Scottish kilt!
Red, green, blue and yellow
This chameleon is a colorful fellow
A blend of colors, his own unique hue
Rainbow was made especially for you!
Now you know how Rainbow gets his colors! :-)
For Macro Monday's theme "powder". The total frame is about 50 mm, or 2 inches. I placed a measurement photo in the first comment box.
Rainbow is a Beanie Baby born on October 14, 1997. I placed a photo of the tag showing the poem in the second comment box.
Happy Monday everyone! Happy Memorial Day to my American Flickr friends!
Tommy, from Tommy's Living Desert Tours found this beautiful chameleon in the west coast of Namibia, near Swakopmund. The desert was full of life if you were as skilled as Tommy in finding it.
This is a macro image I captured some years ago, but for various reasons, mainly technical, I've only just edited. The image shows the Chameleon using it's prehensile tail to cling onto the branch.
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18mm 1/350 s à f/3,5 ISO100
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Mediterranean chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon) in Cabo de Gata–Nijar Natural Park, Andalusia, Southern Spain.
Aquarium of Genoa - Tropical garden
Acquario di Genova - Giardino tropicale
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Chameleons are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards. The members of this family are best known for their distinct range of colors, being capable of shifting to different hues and degrees of brightness.
Some chameleon species are able to change their skin coloration. Different chameleon species are able to vary their coloration and pattern through combinations of pink, blue, red, orange, green, black, brown, light blue, yellow, turquoise, and purple.
Color change in chameleons has functions in camouflage, but most commonly in social signaling and in reactions to temperature and other conditions.
Chameleons tend to show brighter colors when displaying aggression to other chameleons,and darker colors when they submit or "give up". Some species, particularly those of Madagascar and some African genera in rainforest habitats, have blue fluorescence in their skull tubercles, deriving from bones and possibly serving a signaling role.
Do chameleons—like the handsome Panther Chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) photographed here—dream? Some recent studies seem to suggest that they do, and REM has been seen in slumbering chams! Sleeping habits vary across species, but most will find an area near their favorite feeding/hunting spot and nestle down amidst the foliage so as to avoid being spotted by nocturnal predators. Many will even drop from their branches at the slightest provocation, tumbling to the ground in hopes that the reason for their fall is a hasty escape from what could have been a predator.
This is a captive panther chameleon and, interestingly, this is the only time I've ever seen him purse his lips, as if caught in a soft snore!
Cologne, Germany, 2014.
Another one from the archives that I finished editing just today.
There's more on www.chm-photography.com.
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