The mountain lion Chamaeleon changes colour to exhibit itself . When scientists did a genetic work up on it , they discover out that behind its video display it was blot out 10 extra species . control out a flow chart that can give you a hint as to which cougar chameleon you ’re front at .
biologist at the University of Geneva and the University of Antananarivo went looking for the genetics reasons behind the striking shifting colors of the Panthera onca chameleon . These chameleons are find all over Madagascar , and nowhere else . The wilderness areas in Madagascar are shrink , but still extensive , and it take on multiple trip for the researcher to collect over three hundred samples of puma chameleon blood .
What they found , when they analyzed the blood , was that they ’d greatly overestimated the puma Chamaeleon ’s image , and greatly underestimated the number of species . What they ’d thought was a individual specie of chameleon living all over the island was actually 11 different species , all inhabiting unlike habitats on the island , doing small - to - no mating outside their community .

The fact that we have n’t caught on to the remainder until now can be chalked up to both super similar forcible structure of all the specie , and the chameleon ’s magnificently shift color showing . luckily , the scientists had contract pictures of all the chameleons they ’d direct stock droplets from . By analyzing the slim differences in patterns and colour , the researchers came up with a rough guide to let people in the field of study know which specie of chameleon they ’re staring at . you may see one of the guides , in flow chart form , above .
Images : © Michel Milinkovitch
[ origin : Molecular Ecology ]

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