{"id":889,"date":"2014-09-05T20:30:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T18:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=889"},"modified":"2025-07-13T20:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:46:32","slug":"furcifer-campani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/furcifer-campani\/","title":{"rendered":"Furcifer campani"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First description:\"IUCN<\/a><\/h4>\n

(Grandidier, 1872) \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Origin of the species name:<\/h4>\n

The French naturalist Alfred Grandidier visited Madagascar three times between 1865 and 1868, traveling almost the entire island and producing one of the first maps of the country. Back in France, he began to write his life’s work L’Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar<\/em> in 40 volumes. In 1872 he described Furcifer campani<\/em> in three sentences among other chameleons. He did not mention why he chose the Latin campani<\/em> (= from Campania) as his name. Possibly the mountains of the Andringitra massif, from which the animals came, seemed to the widely traveled naturalist to be similar to those of the Campania region in Italy.<\/p>\n

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Distribution:<\/h4>\n

Furcifer campani<\/em> exclusively occurs in the foothills of the Malagasy southern highlands. You can find it at elevations up to 2000 meters. The best chances to find Furcifer campani<\/em> are the Andringitra mountains, e.g. in Anja Community Reserve near Ambalavao. The chameleons live in low bushed and inside the grassland between rocks. Due to the high elevations, the temperature here can decrease until the freezing point at night. Unfortunately, the area hardly has any primary vegetation left, so these chameleons are expelled into secondary vegetation with very small population sizes. In 2016, we found Furcifer campani<\/em> for the first time somewhere completely else: South of Ambositra.<\/p>\n

Appearance & size:<\/h4>\n

Furcifer campani<\/em> is also called “jeweled chameleons” due to their attractive color patterns. Relaxed animals are yellow-green with bright blue stripes, bright blue and yellow spots as well as a bright red area above the eyes. Stressed chameleons of this species change color to black ground color bright spots. The casque of both genders is flat and neither back nor belly wears a ridge. With a size of 12-20 cm in total, Furcifer campani<\/em> belongs to the mid-sized chameleons.<\/p>\n

Good to know:<\/h4>\n

This species has been bred in captivity for the first time in 1992 in Germany. However, today it is still rarely kept and only bred in low numbers.<\/p>\n

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