Palleon nasus
First description: (Boulenger, 1887) Origin of the species name: The Belgian zoologist George Alber Boulenger, at that time working at the Natural History Museum in London (Great Britain), named this chameleon species after its...
Color variation “green giant”
Distribution: Masoala National Park is located on the peninsula of the same name in north-eastern Madagascar. At the northern end of Antongil Bay, also known as the “Cradle of Whales”, lies the small coastal...
Color variation “orange eye”
Distribution: Parson’s chameleons of the color variation “orange eye” occur in several areas of Madagascar’s east coast in a region between 50 km south of Toamasina (Tamatave) and Mananara. We want to introduce you...
Color variation “yellow giant”
Distribution: Vohimana is approximately 15 km away from Andasibe-Mantadia national park in eastern Madagascar, only about 160 km and few hours by car via RN2 away from the capital Antananarivo. Andasibe-Mantadia, earlier called Perinét,...
Color variation “yellow lip”
Distribution: Ranomafana national park is approximately 420 km south-east of the capital Antananarivo in Madagascar’s southern highlands. You need at least one day to get there via RN7. The village of the same name...
Furcifer major
First description: (Brygoo, 1971) Origin of the species name: The French zoologist Édouard-Raoul Brygoo described the species at the Institute Pasteur in Antananarivo, Madagascar. He considered it to be a subspecies of the carpet...
Climbing possibilities and decoration
Before a terrarium can be occupied by its new occupant, it needs suitable furnishings. In addition to living substrate, back wall, and living plants and needs a chameleon terrarium especially one thing: climbing opportunities....
Back walls in the terrarium
Design of back walls in the terrarium Most terrariums have plain back walls when they are built or bought – “back wall” here means all sides of a terrarium that do not consist of...
Cleaning and disinfection
Everyone in the terrarium hobby has already experienced it: You painstakingly set up a beautiful terrarium, but do not take it so exactly with the quarantine and put the newly acquired chameleon in the...
“Free range” and chameleons inside the living room
Again and again, pictures pop off in the world wide web showing chameleons “free-roaming” inside the living room, optionally in kitchen, sleeping room or at the balcony, too. In most cases, the animals sit...
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