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Chameleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the possession by many of a prehensile tail, crests or horns on their distinctively shaped heads, and the ability of some to change color. Uniquely adapted for climbing and visual hunting, the approximately 160 species of chameleon range from Africa, Madagascar, Spain and Portugal, across south Asia, to Sri Lanka, have been introduced to Hawaii, California and Florida, and are found in warm habitats that vary from rain forest to desert conditions. --Wiki

Kujaw jamog porma ni nga chameleon. Linginon ang ulo unya naay lawom nga liog-liog...

Why do chameleons change their skin color?

Not to blend into their background, never have, never will. They change their color depending on a number of emotional states, they change often, and so it’s no wonder that eventually they will match their backgrounds, but only until the next change. They change color when frightened, when mating, when fighting another chameleon etc. A chameleon would have little use for blending in, their main prey, insects, tend to have eyesight unfit to spot them when they are still anyway, and being an apex predator, chameleons don’t tend to have any natural predators. -- http://listverse.com/

Super-cute nga chameleon...

my badness!  may puruhan diay nga modagpak tag insekto unya kay di man ta kaklaro, chameleon diay to?  mahadlok man sad ta ani.

OT:  huhuhu, mora man nig kogmo nga gipaligidligid sa akong hanggaw nga brother sa iyang pad sa high school pa mi.  iyang gipaligidligid unya nangayog panabang nako, urgent kuno nga akong dakpon.  tabang sad tawon ko.  sa akong kalagot nga gisud ra diay ko sa taro, da, nahungit lagi nako niya.

hayahaya.  magsungkod pa ang uban nila...



Common Chameleon, Chamaeleo chamaeleon

Scientific classification

Kingdom:    Animalia
Phylum:      Chordata
Class:         Reptilia
Order:        Squamata
Suborder:   Lacertilia
Infraorder:  Iguania
Family:       Chamaeleonidae

Subfamilies and Genera

   Chamaeleoninae
       Bradypodion
       Calumma
       Chamaeleo
       Furcifer
       Kinyongia
       Nadzikambia
   Brookesiinae
       Brookesia
       Rieppeleon
       Rhampholeon


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Chameleons are another story:




Chameleons are widely regarded with unreasoning fear, especially in West Africa, where various beliefs associate the reptile with the Sun. In Dahomey, the chameleons are said to fetch fire from the Sun. In early Christianity, the chameleon was used to symbolize Satan who, like the chameleon, could change his appearance to deceive mankind. Other deep-rooted belief that persist are that chameleons are "nourished by the air," and hence do not eat. They do have huge lung sacks that, when fully expanded, become almost transparent. Nevertheless, chameleons do eat food.

The eyes of the chameleon are unique. The lids are fused over each eye ball, leaving only a small aperture, and each eye can see and move independently. Seen close-up, this random movement can be quite un-nerving. A belief arose as far back as the time of Pliny (1st Century AD) that a chameleon talisman restored sight to the blind.

Best known for its ability to change its skin color to blend with its background, the chameleon has been referred in Sufi (Pantheistic Muslim mysticism) parables relating to an inconsistent person. "So as the chameleon changes his skin, an unwise one changes the color of his being..." The thought is still believed among modern men.


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Quote from: hubag bohol on May 29, 2011, 10:39:51 AM
Super-cute nga chameleon...

di kaha ni kamot sa higante?..

Quote from: bugsay on May 29, 2011, 07:01:11 PM
di kaha ni kamot sa higante?..

He he, tinuod ning naay gagmay nga chameleon. Naa man gani puy gagmay sa paborito nimong linalang...

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 29, 2011, 07:17:52 PM
He he, tinuod ning naay gagmay nga chameleon. Naa man gani puy gagmay sa paborito nimong linalang...

pad sa gihimmosan...

He he, cute jud sija lagi...

dako raba pod na sija'g pad sa akong tan-aw..

He he, mailhan ra man sa nawong...