Chameleons

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.

Yes they do shed. They are like all reptiles and they have to shed their old skin every so oftern.

if it helps i think it's in the reptile famly and i think its a type of lizard =)

Adult Crickets, Locusts, Mealworms, Superworms, Zoophobias, Waxworms, Wax Moths, or Pinky Mice

Yes, the chameleon is a reptile.

Chamaeleon is the only other synonym... but its basically the same. :-)

Yes but there are not many in nz they hard to find

2 lbs

out of their bum bums

5-6 inches at a full adult (10 months)

The panther chameleon lives in the eastern and northern parts of Madagascar in a tropical forest biome.

Smaller Chameleons, like Pygmies and Flap Necks, lay only around 4-8 eggs per clutch. The bigger ones, like Jacksons and Panther Chameleons, can lay up to 110 eggs!

In the wild some species' eggs can take over a year to hatch! They are laid in soft soils at around 1'-3' deep.

they panther chameleon lives in the jungles of Madagascar, and small parts of Africa

chameleons come in a great variety of sizes and it depends on the breed, the smallest is like an inch and the largest grow to 2 ft. so an average is not available it all depends on the breed

don't know? I was thanking just grass

Their color is green

Well mine is going to I think you should buy some sand so she can lay them other why's they will dye and so will the mom

They make nests in the tree branches by folding in branches and leaves and they sleep on these.

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Not generally. They are relatively long lived reptile and lay a fairly smal clutch of eggs. Amphibians are more likely to die post egg laying than reptile species because they produce many many more eggs and expend huge amounts of energy.

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Well, that depends . . .

If there is lots of food and water in the leopard's territory (or 'home range') then a few square miles would be enough space.

The less food and water that is available means more territory is required for the leopard. The 'normal' range, though, ends up being between 4 square miles and 20 square miles in most cases.

because science

Rainforest, for the most part.

They die at the age of 142 as an average in human years