{"id":453,"date":"2014-09-05T00:08:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T22:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=453"},"modified":"2024-11-15T13:48:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T12:48:26","slug":"lokalform-manambato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/lokalform-manambato\/","title":{"rendered":"Local form Manambato"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distribution of the local form Manambato:
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Manambato is a small, narrow and long hut village in the Toamasina region on the east coast of Madagascar. It lies directly on the Rasoabe Lake, the “Lake of Kings”. Some hotels are located directly on the sandy beach of the lake, and around the village, there is very hilly land with sugar cane and corn plantations. Manambato is used by many Madagascans as an inexpensive resort, while the hotels along the Canal des Pangalanes and on lake Ampitabe, 28 km away, are used more by foreign tourists. Manambato can be reached by car from Toamasina (Tamatave) within two hours, it is about 90 km south of Tamatave. The last 7 km to Manambato lead over a holey off-road path and through a small river to Lake Rasoabe.<\/p>\n

Although panther chameleons can be found in Manambato, many animals are killed here by locals out of superstition. At the moment one has to walk a little further along the lake to discover animals in overgrown secondary vegetation less frequented by bathers.<\/p>\n

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

The males of the local form here are red-orange colored with dark stripes. Some specimen have also green accents.<\/p>\n

Weight table<\/h4>\n

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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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