dissabte, 13 de novembre del 2010

THE CHAMELEON


The chameleon is a reptile know by his capacity to change colors. In general the chameleons mesure approximately 25-30 cm. His body is compressed amd his tail is long amd curled. His legs are long and thin and the fingers are divied in two groups of two and three fingers that allow him to seize the tree branches. His tongue is long amd sticky amd it serves to feed. It has a short neck, but his eyes are big and have great mobility.

Many chameleons live in the South of Africa, but they also live in Oriental Africa. Their habit of living is in the forest breaches, so that they can camouflage and they also can hunt the insect leaves. The camouflage is a chameleon' property, for example, when the chameleon walks on a leaf, trunk or branch, the chameleon adopts its color.

When chameleons locate a prey with their eyes, they shoot his sticky tongue and catch them. It also "changes color" to hunt. the majority of the chameleons put from 30 to 40 eggs and bury them in the ground.

To sum up, we know that the chameleon isn't a very common reptile few frequent, it has got surprising characteristics and it's one of the most endangered animals due to the forest destruction.