One of my favourite animals would have to be the flap-necked chameleon. The flapped-necked chameleon is a large chameleon. Colouration varies, from pale yellow through green shades to brown. These guys also display their colours depending on their moods; a pale green is a sign of content where a darker brown or black is a sign of distress.
The Flap-Necked Chameleon preys on Insects, particularly grasshoppers and beetles. They catch these insects using their camouflage and a long sticky tongue reaching up to 30cm or 12 inches.
Sex identification is relatively easy in the flap-neck chameleon with the mails having broadness at the base of their tails and also has a spur growing out from the back of each hind foot.
After mating, egg development takes 3 – 4 months. The female becomes bloated with 25 – 50 small eggs and she lays them in summer. The eggs may take up to 377 days to hatch in the wild.
Wayne – Kapama River Lodge
09/06/2013
“One of my favourite nocturnal animals would have to be the flap-necked chameleon.”
Chameleons are not nocturnal. Your spelling of favorite is wrong.
Good day,
Thanks for the message and reading our blog posts.
Thanks for spotting the error on our 2013 post about chameleons. It has been updated.
South Africa uses British English and not US English, therefore our spelling would default to favourite!
Many thanks,
The Kapama Team