PetNcs
Chameleon Enthusiast
Chameleons have, based on our recent knowedge, very limited sense of olfaction and vomerolfaction...
Though, we can observe them to lick branches with exposing a little bifurcated tip of the tongue few millimeters out of the mouth...
Sometimes they even sense the air...
It seems to be a standard vomerolfaction procedure, as seen by many other squamates.
I have never seen a chameleon doing it and take an action on the result. They seem not to care but they klick the branches and air...
Is it an inherited non-functional atavism or is there any meaning behind?
Though, we can observe them to lick branches with exposing a little bifurcated tip of the tongue few millimeters out of the mouth...
Sometimes they even sense the air...
It seems to be a standard vomerolfaction procedure, as seen by many other squamates.
I have never seen a chameleon doing it and take an action on the result. They seem not to care but they klick the branches and air...
Is it an inherited non-functional atavism or is there any meaning behind?
