For example, in my post about chameleons I didn’t know a chameleon from a lizard. Shame on me! Thanks to Minus, I am not going to cheat you anymore. This chameleon was not a chameleon, but a Green-crested lizard, Bronchocela cristatella. So, I am deleting this image.

Then, I came across a very nice blog – Holy Cuteness and I loved it, so I thought I’d share it with you. Hope you enjoy it as much as me.

Main reasons for a chameleon to change colours are: light, temperature, and emotions of this particular species. Chameleons can be of various colours: green, turquoise, blue-green and black. Skin of these animals has 4 layers and it is transparent. These 4 layers cooperate in order to produce various colours.

Interesting facts:

• chameleons prefer loneliness (even can’t stand company, especially of other chameleons). When 2 chameleons meet, they started impressing each other, showing various menacing postures and colours;
• when a chameleon is attacked by a predator he turns his colour to red with yellow stripes;
• when chameleons feel sick, their colours turn to pale, ’cause they don’t have enough energy to change colours. 

Find more about chameleons here.

Their eyes are the most distinctive among the reptiles. The upper and lower eyelids are joined, with only a pinhole large enough for the pupil to see through. They can rotate and focus separately to observe two different objects simultaneously. It in effect gives them a full 360-degree arc of vision around their body!!!

Chameleons have incredibly long tongues (sometimes longer than their own body length) which they are capable of rapidly and abruptly extending out of the mouth. The tongue whips out faster than our eyes can follow, speeding at 26 body lengths per second. The tongue hits the prey in about 30 thousandths of a second — one tenth of an eye blink.The tongue has a sticky tip on the end, which serves to catch prey items that they would otherwise never be able to reach with their lack of locomotive speed!

Some chameleon species are able to change their skin colour, which has made them one of the most famous lizard families. Changing colour is an expression of the physical and physiological condition of the lizard. The colour also plays an important part in communication.

Despite popular belief, chameleons cannot change colour to their surroundings. Chameleons are naturally coloured for their surroundings as a camouflage ))