{"id":539,"date":"2014-09-05T12:17:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T10:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=539"},"modified":"2024-11-15T14:30:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T13:30:04","slug":"lokalform-nosy-boraha-st-marie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/lokalform-nosy-boraha-st-marie\/","title":{"rendered":"Local form Nosy Boraha (St. Marie)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distribution of the local form Nosy Boraha:
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The island Nosy Boraha, better known under its French name St. Marie, is located on Madagascar’s east coast in the Indian Ocean, in the region of Toamasina. The largest city of this about 50 km long and two to seven kilometers broad island is Ambodifotatra with 16.000 inhabitants. Most people here subsist on tourism and fishery. The Malagasy name Nosy Boraha means as much as island of Abraham, which traces back to a former Arabic population. Today, a small airport offers daily flights to Antananarivo, otherwise, you can reach St. Marie by boat from Soanierana Ivongo (depending on the waves 2-3 hours drive). Mainly the white dreamlike beaches of St. Marie are famous, in many places, you can snorkel and dive.<\/p>\n

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On the island, you can also find a local form of panther chameleons with high color fidelity. Despite its isolation from onshore local forms such as Mahavelona and Soanierana Ivongo, it looks quite similar to those. Males here wear white-greyish colors, partially blueish with rust-red stripes.<\/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 we have found in Madagascar, as far as the animals (and our scales) are participating. So far there are only a few weights, in the long term an average weight in relation to the snout-vent-length It is important to know that all weights were measured towards the end of the rainy season (= best food supply), so they are probably maximum weights in Madagascar<\/strong>. Triangular symbols in females do not mean pregnant, round symbols mean pregnant. In the case of Furcifer pardalis<\/em>, contrary to our original assumption, there have been no serious differences in the ratio of SVL to the weight of the individual local forms.<\/p>\n

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