Parson Chameleon

Description

This curled tail is of a sleeping chameleon. This picture is from a book called “Jungle Spirits” - a picture book written together with Daisy Dent to celebrate tropical forests with images and stories from more than 20 years of work in jungles around the globe. Parson's chameleon lives only in the wetter forests of eastern Madagascar and can exceed 60 cm in total length. Females climb down from the trees to bury 20 to 60 eggs, which take about a year to hatch, sometimes two.