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Chameleons
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Habitat
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Almost half of the world’s chameleon species live on the island of Madagascar. Chameleons live in a variety of habitats, from rain forests and lowlands to deserts, semi-deserts, scrub savannas, and even mountains. Many inhabit trees, but some live in grass or on small bushes, fallen leaves, or dry branches. Some live in cages as pets too.
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Food
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Food
Depending on the size of the animal, they will eat crickets, ants, snails, wax worms, butterflies, caterpillars, smaller lizards, wasps, praying mantises, and flies. They use their tongues as projectile missiles, which they shoot at insects from a distance.
The captive bred chameleon loves to eat meal-worms and wax worms that they catch with that long long tongue! Water is very important to chameleon to keep growing and healthy. They either slurp water up using their tongues or the inhale it.
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Appearances
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Chameleons communicate with one another using their skin pigmentation. Animals that are angry or fearful will commonly display a red or orange coloration; when they are submissive, they will change color to brown or gray. Females will also use color to display when they are ready to mate, choosing the most vibrant and dominant male to reproduce with.
Chameleon eyes have a 360-degree arc of vision and can see two directions at once.Like snakes, chameleons do not have an outer or a middle ear so there is neither an ear opening nor an eardrum. As their old skin gets too small, they will shed it in bits and pieces, dissimilar to snakes that shed their skin all at once. Unlike other pets that reach their full size within a few years of their life, chameleons continuously grow. They are called chromatophores. The top layers of chromatophores have red or yellow pigment. The lower layers have blue or white pigment. When these pigment cells change, the chameleon’s skin color changes. Chromatophores change because they get a message from the brain.
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Species
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The American chameleon, or anole (Anolis carolinensis), is not a true chameleon, but a small lizard of the iguana family. Chameleons are born with special cells that have a color or pigment in them.with 59 different species existing nowhere outside of the island. There are approximately 160 species of chameleon. They range from Africa to southern Europe, and across south Asia to Sri Lanka chameleons continue to grow throughout their lives. As their old skin gets too small, they will shed it in bits and pieces, dissimilar to snakes that shed their skin all at once.