The Veiled Chameleon
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Chamaeleo calyptratus ssp.

Home:  Saudi Arabia and Yemen's mountainous desert areas

Food:  Insects

Size (length with tail):  Up to 2 feet

Chameleon Trivia:

• Chameleons live in trees.
  
  
• Chameleons need large spaces with lots of room to climb.
  
  
• A Chameleon can swivel its eyes almost 180 degrees.  They can even move each eye in a separate direction.
  
  
• Chameleons can change colors, although it is a common belief that they blend with their surroundings, their emotions have a big impact on the color they become.

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Our Meet the Animals section includes research from the following websites:

The Austin Zoo's website:  www.austinzoo.org.

Spanish translations courtesy of the Austin Zoo.

Rolling Hills Refuge Wildlife Conservation Center http://www.rhrwildlife.com/animbot.htm

The Birmingham Zoo  http://www.birminghamzoo.com/

The WWW Virtual Library: Zoos  http://zoonet.home.mindspring.com/www_virtual_lib/zoos.html

Photographs in Our Meet the Animals Section from PrintMaster Platinum v8.0 software.

Research on farm animals came primarily from  http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/

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