What chameleon is this?

Here guys:

chameleon.jpg
 
Took me ages to search through and find the cham, then I come back to post and you've uploaded the pic! Lol! Looks like either a Flapneck or Senegal to me, but I'm no expert!
 
Reading the link it says " South Africa" I thought dilepis were from the Congo. So was the footage about animals in South Africa? :confused:

Edit: Oh and shame on you guys saying "no biggie or nothing special" about a dilepis,,,us little guys have our place in the web of life too!
 
HEY it's not JUST Chamaeleo dilepis you guys are nasty he's so lovely. I love him any way!

I believe it should be a chameleon from africa, but that chameleon footage was about 30 seconds long and just a clip inbetween various other footage such as snakes etc.
 
Actually this probably isn't dilepis but quilensis. The flaps from quilensis and dilepis really are different.

And Benny I don't think it's 'just' dilepis. I really pitty it that dilepis is so much imported that nobody seems to care about breeding those species.

About this specific species from South Africa a really nice book has been written called ' the 'the live of a chameleon' by Vincent Wager in 1983. (I do have some copies of this book when people are seriusly interested.)
 
AJA said:
Reading the link it says " South Africa" I thought dilepis were from the Congo. So was the footage about animals in South Africa? :confused:

Edit: Oh and shame on you guys saying "no biggie or nothing special" about a dilepis,,,us little guys have our place in the web of life too!
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Animals from the dilepis complex can be found in almost whole Africa below the Sahara. There are many different species and subspecies. The typicially known dilepis indeeds comes from Congo and has much bigger occibital lobes as the species on those pictures.
 
The BBC is funded, in part, by a public license fee-- a sort of "tax" paid for by the citizens of the UK. Therefore, for some features such as the iPlayer, service must be limited to those tax payers. They still have an on-demand feature for those outside of the UK, which I find to be a very generous offer.

I'm with Amy here-- the dilepis complex is highly underrated, excessively imported, and perhaps even more important (ecologically-speaking) than the more specialized, less geographically-distributed, species of chameleons. To put it into perspective, losing the green tree frog (Hyla cinerea) would be much more devastating (in the larger scope of conservation and ecology) than the much more rare, much more expensive, blue poison dart frog (Dendrobates azureus).

Fabián
 
Oh I really need to know, I love that guy! Lets not forget i'm in the UK and we don't get many species just veileds and the occasional panther.
 
I have breeded I think more the 80 quilensis and 40 roperi and 30 senegalensis but I guess only 25 animals went to people who really cared the rest I was forced to sell to wholesale as I had to many animals to take care for. I really love this true chameleons.
 
Egads! :eek: No wonder chameleons are afraid of us, look at all those teeth!

I am with you tryme, I think they are adorable. I hope someone in the US is breeding them. Anyone?


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