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Chameleons

Chameleons can change color for communication and temperature regulation, with dark colors providing warmth and light colors offering coolness. They primarily inhabit warm environments like deserts and rainforests, with Madagascar hosting about half of the species. Their diet mainly consists of insects, and they possess unique features such as movable eyes and long tongues for catching prey.

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Chameleons

Chameleons can change color for communication and temperature regulation, with dark colors providing warmth and light colors offering coolness. They primarily inhabit warm environments like deserts and rainforests, with Madagascar hosting about half of the species. Their diet mainly consists of insects, and they possess unique features such as movable eyes and long tongues for catching prey.

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Colourful Chameleons

Chameleons can change colour. They do this for several reasons,


Chameleons such as to communicate with other chameleons and to change
their body temperature. Dark colours help to keep them warm
and light colours help to keep them cool.

Where Do They Live? Surprising Science


The top layer of a chameleon’s skin is actually clear! They have
• Chameleons live in warm places like deserts or
special cells underneath this layer. Messages from their brain can
rainforests and spend most of their time in trees or
make these cells grow bigger or shrink to a smaller size. This affects
bushes.
the cells’ appearance and means the chameleon can create lots of
• Chameleons can be found in the wild in Africa, Asia different colours and patterns on their skin.
and parts of southern Europe.

• About half of the different species of chameleon live in


Reptile Recap:
Madagascar. • Chameleons are reptiles.

• There are over 150 species of

What Do They Eat?


chameleon.

• Their eyes are able to move in


Many chameleons are insectivores. This means that their different directions.
diet is mainly made up of insects. They eat things like
locusts, grasshoppers and crickets. They don’t move very • Many chameleons have tongues
fast so they rely on their quick, sticky tongues that are longer than their bodies!
to catch insects. Some larger chameleons also • The name chameleon comes from
eat small birds and other lizards. Greek words meaning ‘earth lion’.

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