Chameleons!

Feb 7

Tonight we went on a chameleon walk. We walked around with headlamps and flashlights looking for anything we could find. After almost running into a good number of spider webs, we started to think we weren’t going to see anything. But then, Kate (sorry for the name drops!) called over Stevie and me to look at something she thought might be a chameleon. After a few seconds she decided it was a seedpod, but Stevie and I continued to look. We called over Alan (one of our professors) and sure enough, it was a chameleon. He scrambled up the tree and within a few seconds he had returned with a tree branch and chameleon in hand. The chameleon was amazing. It was huge. And pregnant! And because we stressed it out it turned green with bright yellow spots! You could even see the shape of the eggs against its skin. So we played with it for a while until one girl dropped it and then we all freaked out that maybe its eggs broke, but Alan didn’t seem to think they did. So we just decided to put it back into the tree, after it became possibly the most photographed creature in South Africa. After a few minutes we ran into a poisonous dart frog, which had been scampering up a tree but when a light was shined on it, it froze in place. Apparently if a cow eats one of those it can die!