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Over 70 species of chameleon, half the Wold's total, live in Madagascar. We were lucky enough to encounter about 20.
Above Camp Catta in the Tsaranoro Valley with the Tsaranoro Mountain (800m) on the western side and the giant mountain chains of Andringitra National Park on the eastern side. Madagascar.
Anole lizard puffing his dewlap, on a tree out in our yard in Mokuleia.
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Taken on 24 June 2013 in Guinea near Gombokhory Farmoriah (DSC_9471)
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Houttuynia cordata
Japanese name : dokudami
this is a medical herb
ドクダミ（毒痛み、蕺草）／ドクダミ科ドクダミ／属東アジア原産
乾燥させたものを十薬（ジュウヤク）といい、利尿作用、動脈硬化の予防作用などがあるそうです
今の時期、日陰で白さが際だつ花です
we bottled our homemade dandelion wine last night. we picked the 'weeds' on Mothers Day and made a huge batch. think 5 months is a good enough fermentation time? :) would you dare try this?
This chameleon is made from handcut dichroic glass and fused in a kiln. His sticky out tongue was a mishap but I think it gives him character so I have left him like that
A chameleon we found late in the afternoon as we were leaving the reserve. When I got a bit too close with the camera he flared out his throat like this.
The Oriental Garden Lizard, Eastern Garden Lizard or Changeable Lizard (Calotes versicolor) is an agamid lizard found widely distributed in Asia. It has also been introduced in many other parts of the world.
Two small groups of spines, perfectly separated from each other, above each tympanum. Dorsal crest moderately elevated on the neck and anterior part of the trunk, extending on to the root of the tail in large individuals, and gradually disappearing on the middle of the trunk in younger ones. No fold in front of the shoulder, but the scales behind the lower jaw are much smaller than the others; gular sac not developed. From thirty-nine to forty-three series of scales round the middle of the trunk. The hind foot (measured from the heel to the extremity of the fourth toe) is not much longer than the head in the adult, whilst it is considerably longer in the young. The coloration is very variable, sometimes uniform brownish or greyish-olive or yellowish. Generally broad brown bands across the back, interrupted by a yellowish lateral band. Black streaks radiate from the eye, and some of them are continued over the throat, running obliquely backwards, belly frequently with greyish longitudinal stripes, one along the median line being the most distinct; young and half-grown specimens have a dark, black-edged band across the inter-orbital region.
The ground-colour is generally a light brownish olive, but the lizard can change it to bright red, to black, and to a mixture of both. This change is sometimes confined to the head, at other times diffused over the whole body and tail. A common state in which it may be seen (as stated by Mr. Jerdon) is, seated on a hedge or bush, with the tail and limbs black, head and neck yellow picked out with red, and the rest of the body red. Jerdon and Blyth agree that these bright, changeable colours are peculiar to the male during the breeding-season, which falls in the months of May and June.