Welcome to The Habitat Webpage...
Of the Chameleon!
This website contains information on: where Chameleons live geographically and the terrain/ natural environment
of those places
Geographics of the Chameleon Habitat...
- Chameleons primarily live in the mainland of sub-Saharan Africa(see images above)and on the island of Madagascar, although a few species live in northern Africa, southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Malta), the Middle East, southeast Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and several smaller islands in the western Indian Ocean.
- Introduced, non-native populations are found in Hawaii and Florida
- Chameleons are found only in tropical and subtropical regions and inhabit all kinds of lowland and mountain forests, woodlands, shrublands, savannas, and sometimes deserts, but each species tends to be a restricted to only one of a few different habitat types
What is the Weather like in these areas?
- The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator, where the sun may shine directly overhead. Due to the overhead sun, the tropics receive the most solar energy over the course of the year, and consequently have the highest temperatures on the planet.
- The tropics maintain wide diversity of local climates, such as rain forests, monsoons, savannahs, deserts, and high altitude snow-capped mountains. The word "tropical" can specifically refer to certain kinds of weather, rather than to the geographic region;
The typical chameleons from the subfamily Chamaeleoninae are arboreal, (usually living in trees or bushes), although a few species are partially or largely terrestrial.Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land.
Image Sources Top Row, left to right: African continent map- Bigfrog, CC BY-SA 2.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons
Tropics & Subtropics map- KVDP, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chameleon in the Trees- Veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) by Herman Pijpers on Flikris liscensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Image Source Bottom Row, left to right: Chameleon In The Flowers-Happy Chameleon May 3, 2017 by JamesInOregon on Flikr is liscensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Forest Trees- John Atherton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Colorless Chameleon- ThirdLittleFive by Wolfram Eberius on Flickr is liscensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 Click here to navigate back to the Chameleon Home Page: Home