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chameleons change their skin color whenever they are either scared or when they need to camouflage from predators

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How do use chameleon in a sentence?

The chameleon is a lizard that can change it's skin colour.


How does the color of the chameleon's body helps the chameleon?

The skin colour helps the chameleon to camoflauge with its surroundings.


Which animal can change its skin colour has long tongue and reproduces by laying eggs?

The chameleon is the colour changing egg laying reptile. Colour changing is known as camouflage


How does the chameleon's skin help it survive in its environment?

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How does a chameleon change its skin color?

Chameleons do not camouflage, this is a common misconception. They change their color as a way to express themselves towards other chameleons and to scare predators away. Many chameleons have very bright and "screaming" colors, not very suitable for camouflage. Many chameleons have a cryptic base color though. They change color with special cells called chromatophores. There are several different types of chromatophores with different colors. Chameleons are capable of the faster form of color-change, called physiological colour change. The chromatophores contain pigment and/or light reflecting matter. Simply put, these cells can expand and contract, thereby making other colors in a layer under the chromatophore visible.


Is a chameleon changing color chemical or physical change?

A chameleon changing color is a physical change. This color change is due to specialized cells in the chameleon's skin called chromatophores, which expand or contract to reveal different pigments based on the chameleon's mood or environment.


Is it true that the skin of a chameleon can change colors?

No, a chameleon can't change colors. It can go from light green to dark green to brown, but that's changing shade, not color. If you see a chameleon that's green and in a green tree, he hasn't changed green because of the tree. He was born green, but lives in the tree because he is the same color.


Can the skin of a chameleon change colors?

Chameleons camoflauge to hide from predetors.


What colors could chameleons change if they are mad?

chamelions dont change colour depending on their emotions, they change colour to blend in to their environment.


Can a chameleon skin change colors?

yes.but it only changes when on a platform


Do chameleon change color?

Yes, they do, they change various colors depending on what their surroundings are because they are either hunting for food, or camoflauging (sp?) themselves from predators.


What is camelian?

You either meanWhat is carnelian * An orange, or reddish-orange, semiprecious stone which is a variety of chalcedony, which itself is a type of quartz. orWhat is a chameleon * A slowmoving lizard with the ability to change its skin colour.