Some succeeded in discovering chameleons and serpents.
Chameleons were crawling on the broad leaves of the cactus.
Serpents and chameleons are particularly liable to have their lungs infested by acanthocephalous entozoa, these organs being also attacked by pentastomes.
I have received evidence of fatal epizoöty amongst chameleons from this source; and I have been requested to suggest a remedy.
Mr. Cross made me a present of six chameleonswhich belonged to a small breed and looked like lizards.
The chameleons are an African family, but a few of the fifty or so species belong also to the western coast of India and Ceylon, and one is a resident of southern Spain.
The chameleons differ so much from other lizards that they have been placed by some systemists in a different suborder.
Chameleons are most celebrated, however, for their remarkable power of changing their color, but this is by no means always, or perhaps often in direct response to the hue of their immediate surroundings.
But this opinion is erroneous; and experiments conducted with the greatest care have proved that chameleons are incapable of modifying their external appearance in anything like so rapid and complete a manner.
Many and various theories have been proposed to explain the changes of colour whichchameleons undergo; changes the importance of which have been greatly exaggerated.
Yet dare not stain with wealth or power A poet's free and heavenly mind: 20 If bright chameleons should devour Any food but beams and wind, They would grow as earthly soon As their brother lizards are.
Chameleons have the blade of the scapula long and slender, but the coracoid is always as broad as it is long.
The Chameleons spend their lives in trees, for clinging to the branches of which their organization is admirably adapted.
The third I brought from Jerusalem was the most singular of all the Chameleons I ever had: its temper, if it can be so called, was extremely sagacious and cunning.
Chameleons are found in warm climates of the old world, South of Spain, Africa, East Indies.
The Arabs in Lower Egypt catch Chameleons by jumping upon them, flinging stones at them, or striking them with sticks, which hurts them very much.
Girls, you may run out and take a last look at your chameleons if you like.
There were things to do besides play with the chameleons too.
Of course they had wanted to take the chameleons home with them but Mrs. Merrill thought it wasn’t possible as they were stopping so many places en route.
The American Chameleons are not true chameleons, but belong to the same family as the Iguana.
They have come to be known as Chameleons because, like the rightful owners of that name, they change the color of their bodies.
The chameleonsare charming, so monkey-like and so 'caressants'.
I wish I could send the six chameleons which a good-natured parson brought me in his hat, and a queer lizard in his pocket.
Chameleons prefer the less exciting sport of sitting face to face and daring each other to mortal combat, secure in the assurance that neither will think of moving toward the other.
An active little Gallot's lizard was placed here lately, with a pair of chameleons, but the contrast was so disgraceful to the chameleons that he was removed, and made to chum with a Gecko, a few cases off.
He absorbed all the rations, too, which was an addition of injury to insult, although chameleons can always put off dinner for a month or two without inconvenience.
As most of them are remarkable for their rapid changes of colouring, the name of Chameleon is often misapplied to them, in the supposition that the Chameleons are the only Lizards in which that curious phenomenon is observable.
From this structure one can anticipate the extreme difference which exists between the habits of Chameleons and those of Lizards.
Chameleons are better able to preserve their equilibrium upon trees than upon the ground; consequently they are more often seen in those aerial domiciles.
Chameleons are found in the same localities, but in the Old World only; these and some other Lizards are remarkable for changing their colour, a phenomenon which is also seen among the Frogs, but in a smaller degree.
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