8/10/2006: Jackson's chameleon with baby

No, actually it's Thursday but I have a better one lined up for tomorrow. Thumbs up for a Jackson's Chameleon with its offspring, and it's one of 22 bred recently at the Taronga Zoo. Neatorama points to the shot from the Sydney Morning Herald. The official cap:

Same guy? The time frame is right.

The title for this post is so misleading...

Yep. I was expecting MJ.

More bright green animals to make me hungry! Perhaps that's why the little ones are so dark, to be less appealing.

I think the whole point of being a chameleon is that they dont stay that colour all the time...

Michael Jackson and Boy George. Having a baby. All babies don't look alike.

Oh, what a cute little baby.

Now that I look at the whole thing again, this is from the original set of chameleons born at Taronga in 2002, and the Sydney Morning Herald gallery is old. The caption writer failed to mention a date. It's all good though, because this is not the same chameleon from the 2002 IotD, and it's still, to my mind anyway, supremely cool. I really love how these little babies hang out on their parents' horns.

How's she going to explain the color of that baby to her mate? Maybe they mated at night.

Thanks for the congrats (and for picking something from neatorama for cellar), Undertoad!

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce How's she going to explain the color of that baby to her mate? Maybe they mated at night.

This one's four weeks old, also a shot from Taronga, on the wires today -- so they did in fact have a hatching last month.

It looks a lot different than the adult in the first picture. This little guy actually has a head instead of a mouth and horns on the end of it's body.