{"id":506,"date":"2014-09-05T11:19:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=506"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:50:40","slug":"lokalform-nosy-faly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/lokalform-nosy-faly\/","title":{"rendered":"Local form Nosy Faly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distribution of the local form Nosy Faly:
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Nosy Faly (translated “happy island”) is situated in the Channel of Mozambique in northwest Madagascar. Actually, it is a peninsula of Diana region, that has contact with the onshore in one small place (it is used as 200 m broad ford). Nevertheless, the island is comfortably only reachable via the sea from Ankify or the surrounding islands. You usually arrive at the only village on the island, Mahambo. People here solely live from fishing and are extremely poor. Nosy Faly itself has small savannahs, steep beaches, much secondary vegetation, and even mangroves. Due to consistent deforestation (especially for wood) almost nothing of the original vegetation is left on the island. Touristically, the island is virtually no man’s land. Since 2015 there is only one small hotel on Nosy Faly.<\/p>\n

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

The panther chameleons of Nosy Faly are well known in terraristics and belong to the most exported local forms. The males here are turquoise green or blue with red dotted bands and yellow corners of the mouth. Some males carry a lot of white under the red dots, others barely white, but a very intense red banding. The animals with a particularly high proportion of white are most frequently found in terrariums, as most people find them more attractive than the darker colored island variant – they are therefore collected preferentially for export. Nevertheless, Nosy Faly not only had and still has panther chameleons with a lot of white.<\/p>\n

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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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