Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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... habitat II . Materials and Methods A Collecting and observational methods B Thermal studies C Metabolic rate studies ... Habitat of Chamaeleo pumilus 16 16 B Description of study stations of Chamaeleo pumilus C Habitat of Chamaeleo ...
... habitat II . Materials and Methods A Collecting and observational methods B Thermal studies C Metabolic rate studies ... Habitat of Chamaeleo pumilus 16 16 B Description of study stations of Chamaeleo pumilus C Habitat of Chamaeleo ...
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... habitat , inhabiting the extremes of desert shrubs of Namaqualand and the Karoo and the high rainfall areas of the south - east coast and Drakensberg plateau . Chamaeleo namaquensis ranges from southern Angola through South West Africa ...
... habitat , inhabiting the extremes of desert shrubs of Namaqualand and the Karoo and the high rainfall areas of the south - east coast and Drakensberg plateau . Chamaeleo namaquensis ranges from southern Angola through South West Africa ...
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... habitat is probably man's most destructive effort , because it totally eliminates a habitat and all forms dependent upon it . It was felt at Gobabeb that Chamaeleo nama- quensis was rare there owing to the Kuiseb flooding in 1969. This ...
... habitat is probably man's most destructive effort , because it totally eliminates a habitat and all forms dependent upon it . It was felt at Gobabeb that Chamaeleo nama- quensis was rare there owing to the Kuiseb flooding in 1969. This ...
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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