{"id":493,"date":"2014-09-05T11:01:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T09:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=493"},"modified":"2026-01-18T13:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:03:16","slug":"lokalform-nosy-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/lokalform-nosy-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Local form Nosy Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distribution of the local form Nosy Be:
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The island of Nosy Be (which simply means \u2018big island\u2019) is located in the north-west of Madagascar in the Diana region. It covers an area of around 312 km\u00b2 and has a population of over 45,000, most of whom live in the island’s largest town, Andoany (known as Hellville in French), and make their living from fishing and tourism. Nosy Be is probably Madagascar’s best-known holiday resort. It is particularly popular with Italian tourists. Nosy Be has a small national park called Lokobe, which covers only 7.4 km\u00b2 of the island, and a smaller municipal reserve of the same name. Otherwise, Nosy Be lives mainly from its many beautiful beaches. The rest of the island consists mainly of secondary vegetation and countless ylang-ylang plantations. The islands of Nosy Komba<\/a>, Nosy Faly<\/a> and Nosy Tanikely<\/a> are also within easy reach. Nosy Be can be reached by plane via Fascene Airport or by sea from Ankify.<\/p>\n

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

Due to its complete isolation in the Channel of Mozambique, this island has developed a local form of panther chameleons with high color fidelity. Males are turquoise-greenish or -blueish with blue stripes and red dots. The corner of the mouth is always yellow and the eyelids have red rays. Despite they all look very similar to each other, there are small variations among the panther chameleons here, for example, there are almost completely turquoise blue colored specimens without any stripes.<\/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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