Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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... colour change in Chamaeleo pumilus and C. namaquensis is primarily thermoregulatory , secondarily camouflage , and least important is background - matching . Colour lability is a widely recorded phenomenon in invertebrates . The teleost ...
... colour change in Chamaeleo pumilus and C. namaquensis is primarily thermoregulatory , secondarily camouflage , and least important is background - matching . Colour lability is a widely recorded phenomenon in invertebrates . The teleost ...
Page 54
... colour lability in Chamaeleo namaquensis are geo- graphic variance of ground and colour pattern , which are discussed in the reproduction section . Hoesch ( 1961 ) gives an interesting account of the colours and patterns of this species ...
... colour lability in Chamaeleo namaquensis are geo- graphic variance of ground and colour pattern , which are discussed in the reproduction section . Hoesch ( 1961 ) gives an interesting account of the colours and patterns of this species ...
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... colour index ' 5 ' on the side to the sun and light at colour index ' 2 ' on the opposite side , with the venter rather static at colour index ' 2 ' . This counterbalances the diminution of natural illumination from the open sky as the ...
... colour index ' 5 ' on the side to the sun and light at colour index ' 2 ' on the opposite side , with the venter rather static at colour index ' 2 ' . This counterbalances the diminution of natural illumination from the open sky as the ...
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active adults agamid air sacs Amphibolurus animals Anolis basiliscus behaviour bitaeniatus body compression body temperatures body weight Bourgat Burrage Bustard captivity Chamaeleo namaquensis Chamaeleo pardalis Chamaeleo pumilus chamaeleons clutches coastal colour change colour index colour lability cooling corpora lutea dark Dawson density dermal deserticulous dilepis Dipsosaurus dorsalis dune sand environmental temperatures ERSITY fat bodies February female Chamaeleo field FitzSimons 1943 Gobabeb gravel habitat haematocrit heat hohnelii hummocks iguana iguanid incubation inland June juveniles Kuiseb litter lizards lungs males Mayhew Microsaura Namib Desert observed ovarian oviducal eggs oviposition ovulated oxygen consumption parentheses pattern population prey quensis Range Mean recorded rehydrated reproductive reptiles Rhoptropus SAN DIEGO saurians Sceloporus Schmidt-Nielsen season skin species sperm Stellenbosch substrate Swakop River Table tail teeth tenebrionids territories thermal thermoregulation thermoregulatory UNIV Uta stansburiana Uta stansburiana hesperis vegetation viviparous Walvis Bay warming water loss wind young Zoond