Home Page
Did You Know?
True chameleons include the following genera: Archaius, Bradypodion, Brookesia, Calumma, Chamaeleo, Furcifer, Kinyongia, Nadzikambia, Palleon, Rhampholeon, Rieppeleon and Trioceros.
Some chameleons play dead to avoid predation; this is called thanatosis.
Chameleons do not have external ears or a tympanic membrane, but they do have internal ears as well as degenerated middle ears. They do not hear well but they can detect low frequency sounds.
Chameleons do have taste buds on their tongue but overall they have a poor sense of taste.
The horns on a chameleon are made up of ringlike segments of inner bone covered by a hard keratin-like skin.
The smallest chameleon species is Brookesia micra with an adult length just over 1 inch (29mm). It hatches from an egg no bigger than a grain of rice!
The word Calumma comes from the Latin word for covering. This genus consists of chameleons from Madagascar with occipital lobes.
The word Kinyongia is from the Swahili word for chameleons: Kinyonga.
Chameleon fossils have been found in central Europe and China, indicating they were once much more widespread than they are now.
The chameleon tongue accelerates towards its target at over 1642m per second. Chameleons rarely miss their intended food item.
- Chameleons Only
- Mist King
- Tortoise Supply
- Great Lakes Hornworm
- LLLReptile
- Mulberry Farms
- Chameleon Paradise
- Coastal Silkworms
- Dubia Roaches
- Dragon Strand
- Chamelicious Chameleons
- Full Throttle Feeders
- Gulf Coast Silkworms
- Chromatic Chameleons
- Sticky Tongue Farms
- The Critter Depot
- Mantis Place
- Rebecca Wang Art
- iPardalis
- Rainbow Mealworms
- FramsChams
- Light Your Reptiles
- Neptune the Chameleon
- Tamura Designs
- Ready's Rainforest
Featured Blog Entries
-
Jackson's Chameleon Articles and Studies
- JacksJill
- Views: 66K
- Reaction score: 15
- Comments: 6
- General
I'm always trying to find these links for people. Now anyone who is interested in knowing more about Jacksons chameleons can find them here... -
Individual Baby Cages or Caging during the time of Covid
- JacksJill
- Views: 35K
- Reaction score: 11
- Comments: 8
- General
My first prototype I was planning on using Exo-terra Nano glass cages for my baby cages but the supply chain issues we are all too familiar with...
Random Species
