{"id":289,"date":"2014-09-03T18:32:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=289"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:03:59","slug":"lokalform-ambanja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/lokalform-ambanja\/","title":{"rendered":"Local form Ambanja"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distribution of the local form Ambanja:
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Ambanja is located in northwest Madagascar in region Diana and is one of the largest cities there with about 40.000 inhabitants. The national road RN 6 leads directly through this chaotic and overcrowded city. From there to the capital Antananarivo, you need about 20 hours by car. The region around Ambanja is the main cropping area for cocoa, and in many plantations around Ambanja as well as in shrubs, bushes, and trees you can find panther chameleons.<\/p>\n

In the south of Ambanja, there is a big river: Sambirano. It makes a natural barrier for chameleons simply due to its size – panther chameleons cannot cross it. Nevertheless, you can also find panther chameleons before crossing the bridge over Sambirano, and those look very similar to Ambanja local form. You could count them either to Ambanja local forms or to the local form Djangoa that occurs a little further south, and which is also limited by another river. To the further north occurring local form Ankify, Ambanja is separated by a several kilometers broad mangrove belt.<\/p>\n

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The panther chameleons from Ambanja vary a little within the same local form. The most common coloring found around Ambanja in the males is a turquoise green or bluish turquoise all over the body with deep red, broad bands. The red can vary from a deep Bordeaux red to a bright light hydrant red. The eyelids are usually orange. Starting from the eyelids, some animals may show orange or red streaks all over the head area up to the back. Some show turquoise blue spots in the red banding.<\/p>\n