{"id":416,"date":"2014-09-04T23:05:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T21:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=416"},"modified":"2024-11-14T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T10:51:00","slug":"lokalform-cap-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/lokalform-cap-est\/","title":{"rendered":"Local form Cap Est"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distribution of the local form:
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Cap Est (French name for Cape East) is located on the east coast of Madagascar in the immediate vicinity of Masoala National Park. It is not a village, but the name of the easternmost tip of Madagascar, simply an uninhabited piece of land. The area consists of secondary vegetation, remnants of littoral forests, and mangroves. The nearest village is a little south of Cap Est and is called Ambodirafia. Cap Est is bordered to the north by the Onive River. Cap Est lies only slightly above sea level.<\/p>\n

Coastal villages, rice fields as well as their direct surroundings (and thus also Cap Est) do not officially belong to the Masoala National Park – despite the fact that many huts and rice fields were and still are built illegally. However, the area belongs to a so-called buffer zone<\/a>. In this buffer zone, there are, among other things, rules for logging, the creation of new rice fields, and the catching of wildlife. Originally, the buffer zone was intended to prevent the local people from losing their livelihood despite the establishment of a national park. In addition, this peripheral area with permitted logging was intended to ensure that less logging would occur within the park boundaries themselves. In fact, today the actual park boundary is difficult to discern on the ground, as there is a smooth transition from cleared land areas with secondary vegetation to the rainforest.<\/p>\n

Cap Est is difficult to access, which is why hardly any travelers ever get to see it. To get there, one currently has to fly to Sambava on a Twin Otter, drive from there to Antalaha by off-road vehicle, and then negotiate an off-road dirt road to Ambodirafia. Ecotourism activities of Masoala National Park are limited to the western side of the park in Antongil Bay. In the area of Cap Est, there is little to be seen of it, any tourist infrastructure does not exist. In addition, there is still frequent illegal logging of rosewood in the area within the national park boundaries. The small harbors in the villages near Cap Est are used to ship the illegal cargo unnoticed. Due to its exposed location, Cap Est is hit by cyclones every year around the turn of the year.<\/p>\n

Appearance of the local form:<\/h4>\n

Due to its isolated location, a very color-faithful local form of the panther chameleon is found at Cap Est: the males are white with deep red banding. The white areas have partly dove-blue tints. Some animals have significantly more white and light blue than others. The female panther chameleons look here like everywhere else on Madagascar. The local form Cap Est bears no resemblance to the panther chameleons found in Masoala National Park, despite its proximity.<\/p>\n

Weight table<\/h4>\n

\"Gewichtstabelle<\/p>\n

Gewicht = weight in grams, Kopf-Rumpf-L\u00e4nge = snout-vent-length in cm, Weibchen = females, M\u00e4nnchen = males<\/p>\n

Since 2015, we have been measuring the weights of chameleons found by us in Madagascar, as far as the animals (and our scales) participate. In the long term, we aim to obtain an average weight in relation to snout-vent-length (measured from the tip of the nose to the cloaca) for each species from as many measurements as possible. It is important to know that all weights were measured towards the end of the rainy season (= best food supply), so these should be maximum weights on Madagascar<\/strong>. Triangular symbols in females mean not pregnant, round symbols mean pregnant. In Furcifer pardalis<\/em>, contrary to our original assumption, it has so far turned out that there are no serious differences in the ratio of SVL to weight between the individual local forms.<\/p>\n

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