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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 to some of these. All of the east coast habitats differ significantly in climate from other Parsons’ habitats. With elevations from 0 to 500 m above sea level, the orange eyes’ distribution area is much lower than the distribution areas of other color variations. Thus it is much warmer as e.g. in Vohimana (yellow giants) or Ranomafana (yellow lips), which are both located in the highlands.<\/p>\n

The island St. Marie (in Malagasy Nosy Boraha) is located in the center part of Madagascar’s east coast and belongs to Analanjirofo region. St. Marie is about 50 km long and has a width of two to seven kilometers and approximately 16.000 inhabitants. The capital of the island is Ambodifotatra. Today, a small, modern airport offers daily flights to Antananarivo. Otherwise, you can reach St. Marie easily by boat from Soanierana Ivongo. Especially the white dreamlike beaches of St. Marie are famous, and you can snorkel and dive in many places. That is why the island has been used mainly for tourism for the last decades. Sadly, there is not much intact rainforest left, and it is restricted to a really tiny area in the north of the island. It is often difficult to find Calumma parsonii parsonii<\/em> here at all nowadays.<\/p>\n

Another distribution area, where you can find the same color variation of Calumma parsonii parsonii<\/em>, is somewhat more southern on Madagascar’s east coast. It is the area around Anjahambe. The habitat here belongs to the less unbeknown distribution areas of this species. Similar to the color variation “yellow giant”, orange eyes here loves to spend time in coffee plantations, but also inside rainforest residues. The denser the forest, the more difficult to find a Parson’s. About 50 km south of Toamasina (Tamatave), Calumma parsonii parsonii<\/em> is also found in the Akanin’ny Nofy Private Reserve and the Vohibola Reserve. Both reserves are tiny and consist of lowland rainforest.<\/p>\n

Appearance & size:<\/h4>\n

The typical coloration of “orange eye” males is a darkish green or turquoise colored body with bright orange-colored eyelids. Males often have a white-beige spot on the flanks, but not all. Every now and then you can find animals with a light turquoise colored body and almost white head, only the eyelids are colored orange. In terraristics there is a lot of discussions whether there are different varieties of “orange eyes”. In Madagascar we have not yet been able to find this out in any way – both the white-headed and the green-headed “orange eyes” with white lips can be found in the same habitat.<\/p>\n

Weight table<\/h4>\n

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Weibchen = females, M\u00e4nnchen = males, Jungtier = juvenile, KRL = snout-vent-length in cm, Gewicht = body weight in grams<\/p>\n

Since 2015, we have been measuring the weights of some chameleons that we found in Madagascar, of course only if practicable with calm animals (and working scales). Up to date, we have only a few weights. Over the long term, we want to get an average weight in proportion to the snout-vent-length (measured from the tip of the nose to the cloaca) from a large number of measurements for each Madagascan chameleon species. It is important to know that weights were all measured at the end of the rainy season when the chameleons have been having the highest food supply of the year. So our table may show the maximum weights of chameleons in Madagascar<\/strong>. Triangular symbols in females mean not pregnant, spherical symbols mean pregnant. Up to date, we have one shared table for all color variations of Calumma parsonii parsonii<\/em> since it is all the same species.<\/p>\n

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