{"id":385,"date":"2014-09-04T22:06:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=385"},"modified":"2025-11-15T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:01:42","slug":"lokalform-ankaramy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/lokalform-ankaramy\/","title":{"rendered":"Local form Ankaramy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distribution of the local form Ankaramy:
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The small city Ankaramibe is located in northwest Madagascar in region Mahajanga, directly at the RN6. The city partially consists of stone houses, but mainly of the usual wooden huts, and is surrounded by maize fields, secondary vegetation, and coffee plantations. Everything green outside the plantations is strongly characterized by mango trees. South of Ankaramibe, there flows the river Ankaramy which gave the name for this local form. Behind this river, the western distribution area of panther chameleons begins. In the northern direction, the local form is bordered by local form Djangoa – the males here look completely different! Between Ankaramibe and Djangoa flow two rivers called Antranofotaka and Ankingameloka.<\/p>\n

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The specimens occurring in and around Ankaramibe have a very special color that does not exist anywhere else in Madagascar. The males here are all dirty red, sometimes changing to a kind of pink, with bright white lips and white lateral stripes. Due to the partially pink-alike color, animals of this local form have been sometimes called “pink panther”. The following pictures show juveniles of this local form.<\/p>\n