Why do chameleons change their colours??? 🤔

 There  are some types of lizards called chameleons that can change their colour have you ever wonder why and how they can do this??????

Chameleons are part of scientific family called Chamelonidae.

In addition to the ability to change colour chameleons  have many other characteristics that make them special including parrot like feet Eyes that can look in two different directions at once and long tongues and tails.

Chameleons come in many colours such as Pink blue Orange ,red, yellow, green etc.

There are about 160 different species of chameleons and they can live in both rainforests and deserts.

Many people believe chameleons change colours to disguise themselves and hide from predators . However chameleons are very fast many can run up to 21 mph and can avoid most predators quite easily camouflage  is this only a secondary reasons why most chameleons change colours.

Why would they want to change colours??????

For many years scientists believe that chameleons change their colour by manipulating specialised cells called chromatophores that contain different colors of pigments.

Chameleons also have a special layer of cells called iridophores under their skin these specialised cells which contain pigment and reflect light are made up of hundreds of thousands of guanine crystals.

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