Chameleons
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technically chameleons refer to lizards and humans, who take on the appearance of their surroundings. today, i am adding swizzle sticks. they live up to the definition and are wonderful tools in painting with glass.
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!
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.
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.
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Mediterranean chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon) in Cabo de Gata–Nijar Natural Park, Andalusia, Southern Spain.
let me introduce you to an old pet of mine. unfortunately I had to give him up due to getting difficult to find him food as the local petshop never seemed to have any. I called him George after boy George who sang karma chameleon from culture club. don't get me wrong I was never a fan as I've always been a true rocker at heart.I brought him up from a baby and by no means an easy task keeping them. but he turned out great in the end. usually if i introduced a camera to him he'd turn darker in colour
I took this portrait of the chameleon a while ago in the Zoo Zürich at the Masoala Halle. In editing I reduced noise quit aggressively in the out of focus areas.
Cologne, Germany, 2014.
Another one from the archives that I finished editing just today.
There's more on www.chm-photography.com.
Enjoy!
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.