What chris said is true,i would let him or her go free..
I used to find these in Malta when i was a kid...these are what got me into the hobby amazing animals!!
Take a snap and let him be free,could you not find any CB animals for the hobby in Cyprus....i don't think the reptile keeping hobby...
Or some ampiskiana are coming in misslabled and people are mixing them with the classic sambava lines,i managed to find out a bit more about ampiskiana it is a new site that has been opened for collection of panthers in 2006...
Yo blud,hows it going!! hope you and the chameleons are still going strong:)
Maybe i should put some pics of my sirama up...but that would open up another can of worms!!!!:D
You did better then me kent,i tryd to find it on maps but only found what you found,im guessing that the name changes slighty (the I and K the other way round and an extra NA at the end) maybe a bit was lost in translation...who knows??
:D ok mate This is the best i can find for you ;)
http://www.pardalis-world.de/
These are the best pics on the net of ampiskiana from a trusted/well know breeder in europe
belive it or not my male did not have the u bar,and already i can see some of my babys do have the "u" bar and some...
Why does a U bar indicate sambava locality??? i have seen U bars on nosy mitsio's,ambilobies ambanjas,diego's.
I agree many sambavas show the u bar more often then not,but this is not the defining factor that the animal is from sambava.
Its all about the genetics,you seem to think that from an...
Take a look at this Heika
http://blog.reptilesupply.com/care-sheets/a-closer-look-at-the-panther-chameleon.html
They are like cross between ambilobes mitsios
The blues on the barring of the young ones in the photos you found grows out leaving the base mitsio style green,with red barring...