Expedition Vlog Day 5: Masoala
Off we go into the rainforest again today. A striped anteater runs right in front of us – incidentally, these tiny creatures may look a bit like hedgehogs, but they aren’t even related to...
Expedition Vlog Day 4: Masoala
It’s still hot today, with temperatures above 35°C, and above all dry. Whilst the little neighbouring village is celebrating International Women’s Day – an important public holiday in Madagascar – we’re setting off on...
Expedition Vlog Day 2 & 3: Antananarivo – Maroantsetra – Masoala
At last, we’re off in a north-easterly direction! In Tana, we board a small plane that takes us to one of Madagascar’s smallest airports, in Maroantsetra. The town lies right on Antongil Bay, which...
Calumma fallax
First description: (Mocquard, 1900) Origin of the species name: The zoologist François Mocquard of the Natural History Museum in Paris (France) borrowed the species name from the Latin fallax, which means “deceptive” or “misleading”....
Calumma nasutum
First description: (Duméril & Bibron, 1836) Origin of the species name: Zoologist André Marie Constant Duméril, then head of herpetology at the Natural History Museum in Paris (France), named this chameleon species after its...
Calumma radamanus
First description: Mertens, 1933 Origin of the species name: The German biologist Robert Friedrich Wilhelm Mertens, later director of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Francfort (Germany), named this chameleon species...
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