{"id":7940,"date":"2019-05-01T20:36:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T18:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/lokalform-nosy-tanikely-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:26:04","slug":"lokalform-nosy-hara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/lokalform-nosy-hara\/","title":{"rendered":"Local form Nosy Hara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distribution of the local form Nosy Hara:<\/h4>\n
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Nosy Hara is an island in front of a bay not far from Antsiranana (Diego Suarez) in the north of Madagascar. The island is about 3.2 km\u00b2 large and consists mainly of karst rock, which covers the island in layers and resembles the Tsingys. Panther chameleons live here in the partly gigantic trees of the dry forest, which squeeze themselves everywhere on the island between the rocks. But they also use larger bushes. Even in the mangroves, you can find an animal from time to time. Since Nosy Hara has been considered fady<\/em> (taboo) by locals for decades, this local form of the panther chameleons could develop completely undisturbed. The entire island of Nosy Hara is a national park, but visitors are scarce. This is mainly due to the fact that Nosy Hara can only be reached by boat and there is neither running water nor electricity. So every supply (water, food, cooking facilities) has to be taken to the island, which means a considerable logistical as well as financial effort in Madagascar.<\/p>\n

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

As a local form completely isolated from the mainland and other islands, Nosy Hara has developed very colorful and pretty panther chameleons. The males are green at rest, when excited yellow with dark, wine-red banding, while head and tail can be redder. On the head and throat, there are usually turquoise blue or green accents. We have noticed so far that the male panther chameleons here have narrower (and therefore a higher number of) stripes than other local forms.<\/p>\n\t

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Table of weights<\/h4>\n

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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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