Furcifer rhinoceratus observed during the day at Ankarafantsika. Overcast, light rain on and off. Many individuals were seen.
Calumma gastrotaenia found at night in the Mitsinjo-managed Analamazaotra Forestry Station along the main tourist trail.
Calumma boetgerri observed at night sleeping on a leaf.
The family Chamaeleonidae are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, and the possession by many of a prehensile tail, crests or horns on their distinctively shaped heads, and the ability of some to change color. Uniquely adapted for climbing and visual hunting, the approximately 160 species of chameleon...
