Why do chameleon camouflage? People are amazed by how well chameleon camouflage with their surrounding. These lizards can change and blend to almost any color imaginable.\u00a0 They can blend into their surrounding with their entire body or just part of their body.\u00a0 Chameleon can even change color on the move! As they walk from one area to another area, their body will instantly change from one color to the next color with a blink of the eye.\u00a0 So the question that most people ask is- why do chameleon camouflage?<\/p>\n
The top reason why chameleons camouflage is because they need to blend into their environment to escape predators and other dangers.\u00a0 Other reason could be for hunting, regulating their body temperature, and mating. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n Chameleon camouflage to hide themselves from predator such as birds, snakes and even other lizards.\u00a0 Smaller and younger chameleon are more vulnerable to becoming a prey so they have to learn to change their skin color quickly.\u00a0 Chameleons learn to blend with their surrounding right when they are born.<\/p>\n Another reason for using camouflage is to hunt for prey.\u00a0 Most chameleons are slow moving lizards and prefer to stay in one place and wait for a prey to come by.\u00a0 For this reason, they need a way to hide themselves from preys.\u00a0 For chameleon, that are capable of changing their skin color to blend in with their surrounding.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The last and a lesser-known reason is to regulate their body temperature.\u00a0 Like any other reptiles, chameleon are cold-blooded.\u00a0 This means that their body can’t regulate the temperature on their own.\u00a0 With warm-blooded animals, body temperature is regulated within the body.\u00a0 For chameleons, their body temperature is regulated by the temperature surrounding them.\u00a0 For this reason, they depend on the sun and other heat source to keep their body at optimal level.<\/p>\n Dark colors absorb light, and therefore provide heat.\u00a0 On the other hand, light colors reflect it.\u00a0 Chameleons know this and they use their skin color like a thermostat to regulate their body temperature.<\/p>\n When a chameleon is cold and needs to warm the body, he will deepen his color to a darker shade such as pine green or brown.\u00a0 This dark color will absorb the light and provide heat to warm the body.\u00a0 When a chameleon needs to cool off, he will change his color to a lighter color such as mint green and yellow.<\/p>\n By being able to adapt to their environment, chameleons are able to survive nearly any where in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why do chameleon camouflage? People are amazed by how well chameleon camouflage with their surrounding. These lizards can change and blend to almost any color … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reptilesguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reptilesguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reptilesguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reptilesguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reptilesguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reptilesguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5476,"href":"https:\/\/reptilesguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/5476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reptilesguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reptilesguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reptilesguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reptilesguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Protection<\/h2>\n
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