1. Indian Chameleon (Chamaeleo Zeylanicus) Article
Last Dominicus I hiked a remote hilly terrain on the outskirts of Kalyan City. While trekking I luckily encountered a native specie of Indian Chameleon, directly scientifically refereed equally Chamaeleo Zeylanicus. It was really docile as well as I managed to handgrip it gently. While taking a unopen glimpse, I was deeply mesmerized yesteryear its beautiful radiant peel as well as attractive greenish eyes. Its peel color varied from multiple shades of lite greenish to nighttime green. It had slender legs, a masked dotted greenish caput with long spiral tail. It seemed having a unique robotic walk with a deadening to-and-fro motion.
This article documents my personal experience with Indian Chameleon, shares its close-up photos along with a brief advert of its scientific info.
2. Photo Gallery - Indian Chameleon - Republic of Republic of India Wildlife
On the twenty-four hr menstruation of run into I was quite unfortunate that I didn't carried my high terminate Canon SLR photographic tv camera which I e'er do. In this chaotic province of affairs my Nokia Camera telephone came handy as well as I managed to capture next close-up snaps of this wonderful reptile specie. It makes me experience cracking to part those captured moments. Enjoy watching pics of Chamaeleo Zeylanicus.
Above photograph was captured patch opening the oral cavity of Indian Chameleon. You clearly consider the within of its oral cavity is pinkish white to nighttime pinkish inwards color with teeth most invisible as well as long natural language hidden deep inside. Chameleon get got really small-scale pointed teeth which is useful to concord insects it catches with a viscid tongue.
Later I gently picked the Chameleon as well as placed it on a dried broken branch. Chameleons are arboreal inwards nature as well as they uses their slender legs fifty-fifty equally hands for balancing as well as getting concord of tree branches patch moving. Above pic shows Indian Chameleon slowing approaching towards my hand.
Chameleon making a robotic walk on stick with its 4 legs as well as tail pointed upwards for balancing. It walks tardily as well as cautiously inwards a to-and-fro motion.
After kissing my hand, Chameleon takes a consummate U-turn as well as starts moving to other tip of the stick I'm holding.
Picture taken when Chameleon reached the other terminate of the stick.
After reaching the terminate of the stick it peeps downward to a greater extent than to explore as well as I chop-chop click my photographic tv camera button.
Later I convey the stick downward as well as Chameleon is dorsum on ground.
Soon Chameleon is gratuitous to become its ain agency as well as later few minutes it is completely lost from my sight.
3. Info : Indian Chameleon - Chamaeleon Zeylanicus
- Chamaeleo Zeylanicus is normally known equally Indian Chameleon.
- Main distribution includes Indian Peninsula comprising of mainland Republic of Republic of India along with Sri-Lanka as well as Pakistan. It is too flora inwards other regions of South Asia.
- It has a long prehensile tail as well as independent optic movements. It is arboreal specie as well as moves tardily inwards to-and-fro motions.
- Like other Chameleons it too has an mightiness to alter its peel colour. It changes its color from multiple shades of brilliant greenish to nighttime brown. It practise as well as so to camouflage inwards its surrounding, communicate with other Chameleons as well as command its body temperatures. It uses lite colours to reverberate oestrus as well as nighttime colours to absorb heat. It fifty-fifty has mightiness to alter peel color of few body parts patch retaining color of other body parts intact. It tin practise as well as so either inwards symmetric distribution or inwards a non-symmetric way. During mating flavor they plough their peel brilliant Green patch during fights they plough Dark brown. They are arboreal i.e they dwell on trees as well as thus get got adapted themselves to the colours of trees' trunks, branches as well as leaves which are nighttime brown, brownish as well as greenish respectively.
- They are non-venomous. However if bitten as well as haemorrhage takes house their is a possibility of infection. Hence basic handling is necessary.
- They mate during wintertime season.
- They lay eggs.
- During fights they defend themselves yesteryear making a unique hissing sound.
- They swallow as well as last on termites, grasshoppers as well as other insects on trees.
- They get got mightiness to rotate their private eyes accordingly patch catching prey.
- They are mutual frigidity blooded creatures as well as alive with where at that spot is H2O close by.
- Their prehensile tail acts equally a 5th leg/hand to back upwards their body yesteryear grasping objects.
- They are really lighter inwards weight when compared to their book as well as body size.
- They are shy, docile as well as non-aggressive specie as well as are really piece of cake to handle.
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Article yesteryear Gaurav Akrani. Research as well as Photos Enhanced yesteryear Sameer Akrani. Special thank you lot to our friend Mr. Naagsen without whom this article would non live possible. Article compliled for Kalyan City Life Blog. Thanks! For reading.
