{"id":557,"date":"2014-09-05T13:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T11:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=557"},"modified":"2025-02-15T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T14:22:09","slug":"lokalform-vohimana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/lokalform-vohimana\/","title":{"rendered":"Local form Vohimana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Distribution of the local form Vohimana:<\/h4>\n

Vohimana reserve is close to Andasibe-Mantadia national park in eastern Madagascar, only 150 km and thus a few hours by car via RN2 from the capital Antananarivo. Andasibe-Mantadia, formerly called P\u00e9rinet, is the most visited national park in Madagascar with a good infrastructure. But Vohimana belongs to the less-visited parts of the area with less infrastructure and some shack villages. It is situated at an elevation of 900 m which is rather unusual for panther chameleons. We have so far observed a similar altitude mainly in Marojejy<\/a>. The distribution of the local form Vohimana extends to Ampasimbe. The people in Ambavaniasy (on the edge of the Vohimana reserve) already live partly from ecotourism, but most of them further east still grow maize, rice or bananas or keep zebus.<\/p>\n

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

The basic color of the males from this local form is red with green color in the posterior and lower part of the body. When stressed they become orange, whereby some individuals become almost completely deep red with white stripes and turquoise dots. We assume that the red color intensifies with growing age.<\/p>\n

Weight table<\/h4>\n

\"Gewichtstabelle<\/p>\n

Gewicht = weight in grams, Kopf-Rumpf-L\u00e4nge = snout-vent-length in cm<\/p>\n

Since 2015, we have been measuring the weights of most chameleons that we found in Madagascar, of course only if practicable with calm animals (and working scales). Up to date, we have only a few weights. Over the long term, we want to get an average weight in proportion to the snout-vent-length (measured from the tip of the nose to the cloaca) from a large number of measurements for each Madagascan chameleon species. It is important to know that weights were all measured at the end of the rainy season when the chameleons have been having the highest food supply of the year. So our table may show the maximum weights of chameleons in Madagascar<\/strong>. Triangular symbols in females mean not pregnant, spherical symbols mean pregnant. Despite our earlier assumptions, it has turned out that in Furcifer pardalis<\/em>, there seem to be no significant differences in SVL-weight-ratio between the different local forms.<\/p>\n

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