Furcifer labordi...

[kinyonga]

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/26/8980.full

 

[reptoman]

Hi Linda, very cool article! 4-5 month lifespan after an 8 to 9 month incubation is incredible. I'm glad furcifer paradalis live longer than that

 

[kinyonga]

It's a very short life. Makes me wonder how they came to be like that.

 

[BrucenBruce]

Risky strategy, this ... One bad year for hatch rates, and it's all over . . .

Still - there are plenty of annual fish across the Southern Hemisphere, and most insects and arachnids operate this way. They seem to get by . . .

~Bruce

 

[jannb]

That's real sad. I sure wouldn't want any animal that's only going to live 4 to 5 months. That would be just long enough for me to get really attached and then he'd pass.

Lynda, do you know what normally kills them?

 

[kinyonga]

Sorry I don't know how they die. Sad though.