Jackson's chameleon

Trioceros jacksonii, males

The Dreihornchamäleon ( Trioceros jacksonii ), also called Jackson's chameleon, living in East Africa, in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in cool, often rainy mountain forests at altitudes of 2000 meters.

Features

The 36 inches long expectant males have a low dorsal crest and three horns. The mean is slightly curved upwards and is right on the tip of the snout, the other between the two eyes. In the females usually are only small conical scales on the horn attachment sites. But it may also be present a short or a medium horns horn. The animals are usually colored green to yellow-brown, have white and / or brown spots and a very variable Körperbeschuppung.

Reproduction

Three-horned chameleons bring 7-38 live young ( Ovoviviparie ) who are born approximately between 3.5 and 6 months after mating. You are surrounded at birth by a 1.5 centimeters in diameter measured sticky sheath that indiscriminately settles the female in the branches and which can also fall to the ground. The young pierced soon after the egg membrane. They are initially black, have white triangular spots and are 4.5 inches long.