Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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... plant . Ten specimens each of Chamaeleo namaquensis and C. pumilus were used . The plant was provided for C. pumilus , which will not climb down from , and is at ease when a raised object is available . Adult C. namaquensis will not ...
... plant . Ten specimens each of Chamaeleo namaquensis and C. pumilus were used . The plant was provided for C. pumilus , which will not climb down from , and is at ease when a raised object is available . Adult C. namaquensis will not ...
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... plant ingestion might be incidental with the prey , but this seems scarcely credible in view of the amounts recorded , nor that Zygophyllum stapffii was the predominant plant ingested . Only the fleshy parts of these plants were taken ...
... plant ingestion might be incidental with the prey , but this seems scarcely credible in view of the amounts recorded , nor that Zygophyllum stapffii was the predominant plant ingested . Only the fleshy parts of these plants were taken ...
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an ability to utilize desert plants for food as well as water . Either way it is most interesting , since we may have an omnivorous chamaeleon , excreting salts extrarenally as an adaptation to diet and utilization ( plant - chewing ) ...
an ability to utilize desert plants for food as well as water . Either way it is most interesting , since we may have an omnivorous chamaeleon , excreting salts extrarenally as an adaptation to diet and utilization ( plant - chewing ) ...
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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