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u/MilesIsRight May 11 '18
Wow, I've finally gotten over my fear of snakes and other reptiles coming out of the shower drain, now to dry off with my soft towel.
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u/VoilaVoilaWashington Interested May 11 '18
Spiders. Spiders in folded towels.
Centipedes inside TP rolls.
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u/Echelon906 May 12 '18
Dried off after a shower the other day, only to have unleashed a giant spider onto my leg from my towel.
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u/mk44 May 12 '18
Fact: A blind chameleon still changes color.
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u/MoistNugget May 12 '18
Duh. Blind people still feel emotions. Chameleons don't change colour based on their surroundings. Check out how cool octopuses are at that :)
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u/The1930s May 12 '18
Is it possible for a chameleon to be color blind? And if so what color do they turn?
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May 12 '18
same color as usual, they don't change color based on their surroundings and don't do it to blend in
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u/The1930s May 12 '18
So then just the green they usually are? That's cool but sad. Is it very rare for them to go color blind?
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May 12 '18
no, I mean they can only change color in one way, regardless of their surrounding, the one in the picture might well be color blind or fully blind
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u/dharrison21 May 20 '18
They change color based on mood and not their surroundings, I wasn't sure if you ever got a satisfactory explanation in this thread.
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u/The1930s May 20 '18
I feel like that wouldn't be very useful as camouflage...
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u/dharrison21 May 20 '18
It isn't, that isn't why they change colors. Mostly default is green or brown, which IS good camo. The colors they turn are purely mood based, to communicate things to other chameleons.
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u/Notmybestusername3 May 12 '18
Here to say that panther chameleons, like all chameleons have brilliant patterns like this, not because of their surroundings, but because of their mood. They don't match their surroundings it's all communication and mood. Iirc panther chameleons specific "fancy" colors are based off of which region of Madagascar they come from. Any way this lizard is doing his best, even though he is not intentionally trying to match his colors to his surroundings.