How often do chameleon's change color?

Answer 1

Note: It's a popular misconception that the chameleon changes its color to match that of the background. In reality, they change colour to reflect mood, temperature, etc. The transparent skin of a chameleon has four layers which work together to produce various colors. The outside layer has two kinds of color cells, yellow and red. Just inside this layer are two more layers that reflect light: one blue and the other white. The innermost layer - important and complicated - contains pigment granules (melanophore cells). The melanophores have a dark brown pigment called melanin, the same substance that colors human skin brown or black. The main body of each melanophore sits like a brooding octopus beneath the reflecting layers and sends tentacle-like arms up through the other layers. The color cells alter size, which changes the amounts of red, yellow, and dark brown in the skin and this, in turn, alters skin color. The reflecting layers modify these effects. Where the skin has a blue layer under yellow cells, the blue reflects through the yellow and changes it to green. Where the blue layer is missing, white shines though and enhances the yellow and red above. The skin brightens when the cells pull the dark melanin from their tentacle-like arms into their bodies. The skin darkens when the cells spread the dark pigment through their arms into the upper layers of the skin. The brownish black color then obscures the white layer, darkening the skin like a black cloud darkens the land. That's how the chameleon changes color. It knows what color to change to just as we do when we turn red with embarrassment.

Answer 2

They change colors, because of predators if they think that they can not win the fight then they instictively change their color to camoflauge in with their surroundings.Like if you got bitten and it turn a color that's not anywhere in there surrondings then it thinks it can take you.

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Answer 3

Chameleons chance the color of their skin by dispersing the concentrations of pigments in their skin. It is determined by factors such as light and temperature as well as their emotions, not to match their backgrounds.

Answer 4

yes because The skin of the chameleon is transparent. Underneath this skin, there are layers of cells which contain yellow, black and red coloring matter. When these cells contract or expand, a change in the color of the chameleon is seen.

When the chameleon became angry or frightened, its nervous system sends a message to those cells. Anger causes the color to darken; excitement and fright bring paler shades and yellow spots. Sunlight also affects the chameleon's colors. Various things like emotion, temperature and light cause the nervous system of the chameleon to make its color cells perform their tricks, not the colors of its surroundings yes because The skin of the chameleon is transparent. Underneath this skin, there are layers of cells which contain yellow, black and red coloring matter. When these cells contract or expand, a change in the color of the chameleon is seen.

When the chameleon became angry or frightened, its nervous system sends a message to those cells. Anger causes the color to darken; excitement and fright bring paler shades and yellow spots. Sunlight also affects the chameleon's colors. Various things like emotion, temperature and light cause the nervous system of the chameleon to make its color cells perform their tricks, not the colors of its surroundings

Answer 5

Chameleons change color to communicate, regulate body temperature, and camouflage themselves. They can change color in a matter of seconds or minutes, depending on their mood and environment. So, to answer your question, chameleons change color as often as they damn well please.

Answer 6

Yes. It does change color.