8/10/2006: Jackson's chameleon with baby

Undertoad · 08-10-2006, 08:42 AM

No, actually it's Thursday but I have a better one lined up for tomorrow. Thumbs up for a Jackson's Chameleon with its offspring, and it's one of 22 bred recently at the Taronga Zoo. Neatorama points to the shot from the Sydney Morning Herald. The official cap:

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For the first time, Taronga Zoo has successfully bred the spectacular Jackson's Chameleon, with 22 of the little creatures doing extremely well. Only 4cm long, the young tree dwellers were introduced to the media late last month.

First time at the Taronga Zoo? I don't think so! IotD's 9/27/2002 entry is also a Jackson's Chameleon newborn, at the same zoo. Looking kind of like this one, though definitely not the same beast, and this is a better photo. Apparently that's what the little ones do, they perch on the forehead. Ironically, that may be the only place the chameleon can't move it's eyes to see it.

I like how the parent looks overjoyed, and the baby looks kinda angry.

Hey maybe you weren't following IotD in 2002 and so this will be new to you!

Cellar IotD congratulates Neatorama on his own recent newborn, a girl. His little one is surely much more beautiful than this one, and not so ash-colored.

glatt · 08-10-2006, 08:49 AM

Same guy? The time frame is right.

Leus · 08-10-2006, 09:42 AM

The title for this post is so misleading...

Trilby · 08-10-2006, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Leus

The title for this post is so misleading...

I was thinking the same thing!!

Cute horn'ed beastie!

Griff · 08-10-2006, 10:36 AM

Yep. I was expecting MJ.

Sundae · 08-10-2006, 12:19 PM

More bright green animals to make me hungry! Perhaps that's why the little ones are so dark, to be less appealing.

Ibby · 08-10-2006, 01:57 PM

I think the whole point of being a chameleon is that they dont stay that colour all the time...

capnhowdy · 08-10-2006, 05:26 PM

Michael Jackson and Boy George. Having a baby. All babies don't look alike.

Leah · 08-10-2006, 08:48 PM

Oh, what a cute little baby.

Undertoad · 08-10-2006, 08:57 PM

Now that I look at the whole thing again, this is from the original set of chameleons born at Taronga in 2002, and the Sydney Morning Herald gallery is old. The caption writer failed to mention a date. It's all good though, because this is not the same chameleon from the 2002 IotD, and it's still, to my mind anyway, supremely cool. I really love how these little babies hang out on their parents' horns.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-10-2006, 10:00 PM

How's she going to explain the color of that baby to her mate? Maybe they mated at night.

dar512 · 08-13-2006, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

How's she going to explain the color of that baby to her mate? Maybe they mated at night.

They are actually basilisks. The baby looked at the mother and turned to stone.

That's my theory anyway.

neatorama · 08-13-2006, 04:47 AM

Thanks for the congrats (and for picking something from neatorama for cellar), Undertoad!

Undertoad · 09-19-2006, 07:43 AM

This one's four weeks old, also a shot from Taronga, on the wires today -- so they did in fact have a hatching last month.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-19-2006, 08:47 AM

It looks a lot different than the adult in the first picture. This little guy actually has a head instead of a mouth and horns on the end of it's body.

08-10-2006, 10:36 AM	#5
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Yep. I was expecting MJ. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-10-2006, 12:19 PM	#6
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	More bright green animals to make me hungry! Perhaps that's why the little ones are so dark, to be less appealing. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

08-10-2006, 01:57 PM	#7
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	I think the whole point of being a chameleon is that they dont stay that colour all the time... __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

08-10-2006, 05:26 PM	#8
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	Michael Jackson and Boy George. Having a baby. All babies don't look alike. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

08-10-2006, 10:00 PM	#11
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	How's she going to explain the color of that baby to her mate? Maybe they mated at night. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-10-2006, 08:49 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Same guy? The time frame is right.

08-10-2006, 09:42 AM	#3
Leus Abecedarian Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Chile Posts: 179	The title for this post is so misleading...

08-10-2006, 08:48 PM	#9
Leah Love my Heffalumps Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia (best place in the world) Posts: 346	Oh, what a cute little baby.

08-10-2006, 08:57 PM	#10
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Now that I look at the whole thing again, this is from the original set of chameleons born at Taronga in 2002, and the Sydney Morning Herald gallery is old. The caption writer failed to mention a date. It's all good though, because this is not the same chameleon from the 2002 IotD, and it's still, to my mind anyway, supremely cool. I really love how these little babies hang out on their parents' horns.

08-13-2006, 04:47 AM	#13
neatorama Jotter of Notes Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 11	Thanks for the congrats (and for picking something from neatorama for cellar), Undertoad!

09-19-2006, 07:43 AM	#14
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	This one's four weeks old, also a shot from Taronga, on the wires today -- so they did in fact have a hatching last month.

09-19-2006, 08:47 AM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It looks a lot different than the adult in the first picture. This little guy actually has a head instead of a mouth and horns on the end of it's body. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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