Parson's Chameleon

• anatomíaIt is one of the largest chameleons in the world and can take several years to reach full sexual maturity.
• Its eggs take between one and two years to hatch, one of the longest incubations documented in a reptile: the female buries them and the young emerge from the ground after more than a full seasonal cycle has passed.
• Its eyes move completely independently, each with a field of view of almost 180 degrees, and the animal processes two different images at once until it spots prey and both converge.
• Its tongue shoots out at more than twenty times the acceleration of gravity and reaches its prey in a hundredth of a second, one of the fastest movements in the animal kingdom.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (reptile)

Habitat and environment

Primary humid forest of eastern and northern Madagascar

Sexual maturity

3 years

Gestation / incubation

500 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

40 eggs

Sources consulted: https://www.iucnredlist.org/ | https://animaldiversity.org/ | https://es.wikipedia.org/

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.