A few interesting sites...

[kinyonga]

Blending in by standing out...glowing in the dark...eyes are on you...
https://africageographic.com/stories/chameleons-6-must-know-facts/

Where have all the chameleons gone?
https://africageographic.com/stories/where-have-all-the-chameleons-gone/

"SA’s dwindling chameleon populations and how you can encourage them back to your garden"....
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...w-you-can-encourage-them-back-to-your-garden/

"Have you ever been lucky enough to witness one of these beauties cross a road unharmed? Or spotted them in your garden? As with everything fragile, these chameleons are silently becoming more rare, as humans continue to fragment their habitat"...
https://www.wildheartwildlifefoundation.org/flap-necked-chameleons-tiny-ground-lions/

Kenyan chameleons developed brighter colors in Hawaii...
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...lved-brighter-colours-after-moving-to-hawaii/

Bees generate more electricity than a storm...
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ore-electricity-per-metre-than-a-storm-cloud/

 

[MissSkittles]

I marvel at your ability to find such a massive amount of chameleon related articles, journal publications, research and everything else.

 

[kinyonga]

I'm often looking for one thing and some other very interesting things come up ...which I have to explore! Good "accidents", I guess!

 

[Tkrd69]

Okay that took a little bit to read but was well worth it. You are a wealth of knowledge for everyone who needs help

 

[kinyonga]

Finding the sites increases my knowledge too!
Always glad to find new things to post.

 

[Lindasjackson]

Thank you Kinyonga! Interesting reads for sure!

 

[kinyonga]

Always glad to provide some reading material!

 

[kinyonga]

"In conclusion, the current study suggests that climatic variation induces variation in hatching time and juvenile growth rate of chameleon species. A delayed rainy seasons induced by climate change promote late hatching, prompting neonates to grow faster in compensation"...

https://www.salamandra-journal.com/...anana-m-b-rice-p-m-kappeler-f-eckhardt-1/file

Biochemical blood profile in 20 female veiled chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus) Aged 7, 9 and 11 Months....
"The aim of the study was to determine the physiological range of the blood biochemical profile in 20 young captive female veiled chameleons at the age of seven, nine and eleven months. Given the fact that all females enrolled in the study had evidence of ovarian activity at each sampling timepoint, the values should be interpreted as values for young female veiled chameleons within the reproductive season"...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1557506321001312

 

[kinyonga]

Fecal adrenal hormone patterns during ovulatory and non-ovulatory reproductive cycles in female veiled chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus)...

https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/203430/1/Kummrow_2021,_chameleon_CORT_repro.pdf