New reptile dropped
February 5, 2021 1:18 PM   Subscribe

 
Nano-nano-nano-nano-nano-chameleon,
You come and go
Due to your colour changing abilities and that
posted by gnuhavenpier at 1:52 PM on February 5, 2021 [13 favorites]


That’s no fingertip...
posted by dr_dank at 2:00 PM on February 5, 2021 [1 favorite]


That little guy is definitely giving off some BDE.
posted by mikeand1 at 2:11 PM on February 5, 2021 [7 favorites]


the world's smallest known reptile.

Anything smaller than this is officially a bug.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 2:35 PM on February 5, 2021 [3 favorites]


"Male chameleons ... have an internal sex organ called a hemipenis. A pair of hemipenes are exposed when it's time for chameleon hanky panky..."

"I'm so excited to start my internship at the chameleon research lab! What should I do first?"

"Well, speaking of getting someone excited..."
posted by Mr.Know-it-some at 2:36 PM on February 5, 2021


A nano-chameleon
You had my curiosity . . .

with exceptionally large genitals
. . . but now you have my attention.
posted by cyclopticgaze at 2:58 PM on February 5, 2021 [3 favorites]


I made the first image in this article about Brookesia micra my twitter profile pic the moment I saw it, years ago.

I don't know anything about it's genitals though.

Here's a quote from that article that is fun to look back at:
Glaw, who has been going to Madagascar to research its ever-expanding list of amphibians and reptiles for a quarter century, said that B. micra may represent the limit of miniaturization possible for a vertebrate with complex eyes, but said it's impossible to know for sure since each time scientists have proclaimed the discovery of the tiniest one yet, another, tinier species appears.

"Maybe there's a potential for a smaller species," Glaw said.
posted by Horkus at 3:01 PM on February 5, 2021 [7 favorites]


Whoa there
posted by thechameleon at 3:07 PM on February 5, 2021 [6 favorites]


I would totally lose my shit in a good way if I found a tiny chameleon like this. I already do when I find teeny tiny little tree frogs and salamanders.

A long time ago I had some friends that had a bunch of chameleons and they were fascinating. They had a rather huge cage and living environment indoors hat took up the entire room-sized space of a kitchen nook or dining room alcove sort of thing in their house.

And when it was nice out they would take them out to the garden to chill out all day while they gardened or just got stoned and lazed about in the yard while letting the chameleons roam all over their little garden plot in the tomatoes, kale and reefer plants. I remember sitting out there for hours and hours with them just watching them slowly moving about the garden zapping up flies and worms.

Chameleons don't move very fast and despite the camouflage it was easy to see them if they left the safety of the garden and wandered out into the plain old lawn grass surrounding it, and they mostly stayed in the taller leafy parts of the garden where the bugs were anyway.

I normally have reservations about people keeping exotic animals like chameleons or other hard to care for reptiles, but these were some very well cared for fat and happy chameleons.
posted by loquacious at 3:08 PM on February 5, 2021 [3 favorites]


"Aren't they cute, the way that they cling to the branch?"

"Ah... that's not a branch."
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:20 PM on February 5, 2021 [3 favorites]


Scientists assume that the lizard’s habitat is small …

I can assure you that if you're that tiny, your habitat is f'in huge!
posted by scruss at 5:06 AM on February 6, 2021 [2 favorites]


Clicked for the exceptionally large genitals, stayed for the exceptionally adorable little lizard.
posted by straight at 2:16 PM on February 6, 2021 [1 favorite]


I usually avoid bringing up the size of the genitals on the first date.
posted by The Illiterate Pundit at 7:59 PM on February 7, 2021


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