Madagascar Magical MiniCreature

[SorellaLaBefana]

Rejoice! There’s a new tiny chameleon on the block. Hailing from Madagascar, it joins other miniature chameleons in the Brookesia genus, subgenus Evoluticauda. At little bigger than the end of your forefinger, it was a remarkable spot in what’s presently a highly threatened habitat in Madagascar...

...They’re not easy to track down, but as Mark D Scherz told IFLScience following another mini-chameleon discovery, you get better at it. “It takes a lot of patience and an eye for it. With practice, one can get relatively good at it, but we often work with local guides who are particular experts in finding these tiny chameleons as well.”...

...“Furthermore, it is striking that the only apparent safe haven for the species is a privately-owned forest used for ecotourism, while the few remaining natural forest patches around it are under heavy pressure as we speak by slash and burn agriculture.”

A tricky spot to navigate as a tiny chameleon, then, and it’s the study authors’ hope that B. nofy’s discovery can emphasize the importance of conserving Madagascar’s last remaining fragments of littoral forest.

https://www.iflscience.com/new-species-of-incredibly-tiny-chameleon-discovered-in-madagascar-76011

It is wonderful how gloriously different from us so many creatures are!

Wonderful too that so many still survive!!



Here's the start of the original article's Abstract in ZooTaxa

The number of species of miniaturized chameleons of the genus Brookesia, subgenus Evoluticauda, known to science has witnessed a dramatic increase over the past 15 years...

https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5506.4.3

[wolfie001]

1. They look so pleasantly bored with everything

Love it!!!