Photo by Peter Halasz (Wikimedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe other key feature of any chameleon is their ability to change colour.\u00a0 Of course, today’s featured animal also has this capability.\u00a0 Typically, they remain bright green, however, their colour will change quickly depending on their stress level, temperature and other environmental factors.\u00a0 This whole colour changing thing does help males during mating season though.\u00a0 When they approach a potential mate she will either turn a dark colour which means “Go Away” or she will remain bright green which will make the male very happy.\u00a0 Chameleons are lucky!\u00a0 This colour changing trait takes all the guess work out of finding a date.\u00a0 They don’t need to see if she is playing with her hair or what way her feet are pointing…nope, they just watch her colour.\u00a0 I guess it is sort of like a more advanced mood ring.<\/p>\n
So I guess that just about does it for today’s colourful Wild Fact.\u00a0 Enjoy the rest of your day, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think today’s Wild Fact was sub-consciously inspired by Monday’s episode of “How I Met Your Mother”.\u00a0 In case you missed it, they were bugging the main character, Ted, about his inability to properly pronounce “Chameleon”.\u00a0 Well, it is a few days later and I am writing about a cool looking reptile called the Jackson’s Chameleon.\u00a0 Do you think this is a coincidence or was my sub-conscious mind still thinking about these fancy colour changing animals? You can tell right off the bat that this isn’t your ordinary, every day Chameleon, well the males anyway.\u00a0 As you can tell, the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024,52],"tags":[348,161,1657,1741,1743,4025,1742],"yoast_head":"\n
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