Democritus also asserts, and Pliny confirms him in the assertion, that if the head and neck of the chameleon be burned on oak charcoal it will cause thunder and heavy rain.
We are, therefore, not surprised to read in Aristotle that the chameleon has no blood except in its head.
The best proof of this assertion may be found in the fact that my own Chameleonchanged colour several times after its death; and, indeed, as long as I had the dead body before me, changes of hue were taking place.
Its walk is absolutely ludicrous, and an experienced person might easily fail to identify a Chameleon when walking with the same animal on a branch.
The strength of the grasp is really astonishing when contrasted with the size of the reptile, as any one will find who allows the Chameleon to grasp his finger, or who tries to detach it from the branch to which it is clinging.
The changing colour of the Chameleon has been long known, though there are many mistaken ideas concerning it.
The food of the Chameleon consists of insects, mostly flies, which it catches by means of its tongue, which can be protruded to an astonishing distance.
The force with which theChameleon strikes is really wonderful.
Thus, if my Chameleon happened to come upon any scarlet substance, the colour immediately became black, covered with innumerable circular spots of light yellow.
But no sooner had Chameleon begun to work on Monitor's back than there came the sound of a dog barking.
First the Chameleon said to the Monitor-lizard, "You must scratch a nice pattern on my back.
So the Monitor went to work, and the Chameleon had a fine scratching.
The sharp barks came nearer and nearer to the two lizards; and the Chameleon got such a scare, that his fingers shook, and the pretty design he was making went all askew.
If there is nothing on the tree 'Tis the Chameleon you see.
The true Chameleon is small-- A lizard sort of thing; He hasn't any ears at all And not a single wing.
It is a chameleon and has the faculty of changing to the colour of its background whatever that may be; this forms a protection against its enemies, who cannot easily see it.
Only a lizard scuttling over the dark-washed bedroom wall, first cousin to the chameleon you saw at Abu Simbel.
In one I saw a chameleon cozily ensconced, as though the wreath was made for him.
Two ladies sitting near us have a chameleon in a pickle-jar; one of them is catching flies for its dinner.
And all the time Paul spoke he saw no sea of faces below him--only his soul's eyes were looking into those strangechameleon orbs of his lady.
Then, when he looked away, the lady's weird chameleon eyes melted upon him in that strange tenderness which might have been a mother's watching the gambols of her babe.
It seemed as if her moods, like her chameleon eyes, took colour from her surroundings, and there all was primitive simplicity and nature and peace.
Though the Chameleon is repulsive in its appearance, it is perfectly harmless.
The chameleon has in all ages attracted the attention of mankind.
The ordinary color of the chameleon is a pale olive-green.
The chameleon is found in Spain, in Sicily, and in Syria; its home is in the branches of trees.
I feel as if I were a stuffed chameleon in a glass case, and have a great inclination to tell my maid to take me out and dust me.
The repertory of possible colours in the common chameleon is greater than in any other animal except the Æsop prawn.
The case of the chameleon is peculiarly interesting because the animal has two kinds of tactics--self-effacement on the one hand and bluffing on the other.
Cyril Crossland observed that a chameleon attacked by a fox-terrier "turned round and opened its great pink mouth in the face of the advancing dog, at the same time rapidly changing colour, becoming almost black.
There is no doubt that a chameleon may make itself more inconspicuous by changing its colour, being affected by the play of light on its eyes.
The chameleon changes his colour; He can look like a tree or a wall; He is timid and shy and he hates to be seen, So he simply sits down in the grass and goes green, And pretends he is nothing at all.
He takes to it like a chameleon to air, or a salamander to fire.
The name chameleon mineral is applied to this salt and also to potassium manganate.
Note: In the Scriptures, the name is applied to two unindentified animals, perhaps the chameleon and mole rat.
The chameleon is not the only thing which has been made more marvellous by report than nature made it.
So Mary Jane had plenty of time to play with her chameleon to her heart’s content.
Like magic again the chameleon changed its color--this time a golden yellow that was streaked a bit with brown at the sides--made it look utterly unlike the green animal Mary Jane had first seen in the box.
Among the wild legends with which the earlier naturalists adorned their accounts of all animals with which they were not personally familiar, those of the Chameleon are not the least curious.
Mulungu was driven from earth by the conduct of mankind, who had set the bush on fire, he went, being unable to climb a tree as the Chameleon had done, to call the Spider.
The Duala have the same Chameleon story; and there is a Gold Coast version, in which the two messengers are the Sheep, who linger on the way to graze, and the Goat, who arrives first with the tidings that man shall not return after death.
The chameleon simply warmed his other hand before the fire.
Nothing unusual in a chameleon changing colour, is there, Shireen, my furry dear?
Chammy was a good-tempered kind of a chameleonat most times, though he could bite a little, and give a good pinch too if he saw any occasion; but there was nothing in the world made him more indignant than being lifted up by the crest.
Chammy did not reply, for the fly had come down from the ceiling, and settling in front of the chameleon began to wash its face.
My friend started on her day's journey, came to the tree, and was about to pluck the ferns when she observed a chameleon clasping the tree; it stood still and looked at her.
She instantly left the tree, abandoned the ferns, went back to tell her host that a chameleon was in possession of them and had stared at her, and that it was useless to gather the medicine, for she was sure their relative was dead.
Her belief was not shaken when I reminded her that that chameleon was only doing just what all chameleons do when they are not walking, and when confronted by any one.
The chameleon is an object of dread to all natives wherever I have lived.
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