Saturday 4 December 2010

Well Spotted!

you would have to have eagle eyes to see this little fellow in a pile of leaf litter, it is a Brookesia tuberculata, one of the world's smallest chameleons, but unlike others in the genus it does not change colour, it relies on it's size to make it disappear, it was photographed by Mr Burrard-Lucas, 27, from London, he said: ‘It was really amazing to see, it was so tiny it would have been absolutely impossible to find by ourselves, but fortunately our local guide Antonio knew where to look, the picture was taken in Amber Mountain Park, Madagascar, ‘We were there as part of a four week trip, to photograph as much of Madagascar's unique wildlife as possible, so we were thrilled to see this little creature,’ Mr Burrard-Lucas said, the island is located in the Indian Ocean roughly 300 miles east of Africa over the Mozambique Channel and is otherwise isolated from significant land masses,

all of this means that animals, birds, fish and fauna have evolved independently from anywhere else in the world, yes even fish, the Madagascar Rainbowfish, Bedotia geayi, only lives naturally in Madagascar and no where else in the world, although on the endangered list (red), in the wild, there are many for sale within the aquatic trade thanks to captive breeding, as an aside they prefer cooler water than the 78 degrees Fahrenheit (24C), that normal tropical aquariums in the UK are kept at.

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