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OriginalShort-horned chameleon (Calumma brevicorne) female near Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar
Reason
High quality image. FP on Commons
Articles in which this image appears
Short-horned chameleon
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Reptiles
Creator
Charlesjsharp
  • They cannot be found easily during the day, but at night they sleep on small braches near the ground so that predators can't get them without disturbing the branch. I used a low-level on-camera flash and hand-held off-camera slave unit for the main lighting. There was a lot of ill-informed dabte on Commons FP about the ethics of flash use. Chameleons have (compared to us) tunnel vision so they will hardly notice a flash from, say 20 degreees off line. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:59, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Short-horned chameleon (Calumma brevicorne) female Andasibe.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:28, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]