{"id":469,"date":"2014-09-05T10:16:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T08:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=469"},"modified":"2024-11-15T13:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T12:42:09","slug":"lokalform-mangaoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/lokalform-mangaoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Local form Mangaoka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distribution of the local form Mangaoka:
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The hut village Mangaoka is located in the northwest of Madagascar in the region Diana, actually not far from the big city Antsiranana (French Diego Suarez). However, the way to Mangaoka is very difficult to drive, especially in the rainy season. Sand tracks, mirror-smooth mud hills, and wobbly wooden bridges prevent most people from coming here at all. Mangaoka itself is a small village and unfortunately, has been enormously dirty for years with lots of garbage and rubbish heaps. Around the village, there is only secondary vegetation: bushes, a few large mango trees, and low scrub. Mangaoka is bordered in the north and west by the Mozambique Channel. Towards Diego Suarez and south there are wide mangrove belts.<\/p>\n

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In Mangaoka and surroundings one can find very beautiful, yellow-orange colored male panther chameleons. When not stressed, most animals show green color in the otherwise yellow-orangeish parts. Some years ago we got some imported animals from a biologist from this region ourselves and successfully bred them.<\/p>\n

Weight table<\/strong><\/p>\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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