What So Special About Chameleon?

You may have watched a fiction movie on a famous wizard, Harry Potter, who's good at playing tricks towards the monsters and unknown objects. Like Harry Potter, chameleons are the best magician in the animal kingdom. They can play LOTS of tricks too! They can change color in an instant though!

Chameleons have long been popular for their tricks as they can change color easily. But actually, chameleons are amazing in other ways, because they can perform a good role play as a natural magician. And color change is not the only tricks chameleons can do. They can perform other unique tricks too!

There are about 90 different species of them. Some can be measured as long as your arm, or as short as your thumb. That explains that why sometimes you observe chameleons to have a couple inches long, while some may reach to a couple of feet long. They dwell in warm regions, primarily in Asia and Africa.

Even though most chameleons are found in brown or green color, you can also observe some with their bodies appearing red, black, yellow or blue.

What so special about this chameleon? It's its bulging eyes, which are covered with scaly lids. If you observe chameleon closely, you'll come to notice that its eyes can move in two different directions, almost at the same time.

Do you know that chameleons have a secret weapon? They've a very sticky-tipped, long tongue! The hungry chameleons wait at the strategic location patiently. When their prey passes by, they will shoot out their powerful tongues to catch them, just like they're shooting their prey with a powerful GUN. They then swallow the prey in whole in a tremendous manner! It's scary, right?

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