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Chamaeleo jacksonii Bonetti 2002: 63
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They are considered a long-lived chameleon (up to 10 years)(Bartlett and Bartlett, 1995).
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Comments: Eats various climbing and flying invertebrates, including grasshopper, crickets, cockroaches, flies, butterflies, moths, spiders, slugs, and snails (McKeown 1996); prey captured with projectile tongue.
Average lifespan
Status: captivity: 8.2 years.
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Maximum longevity: 8.2 years (captivity)
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Jackson's chameleons have a mating ritual that mimics their threat ritual. The male will initiate the threat display to the female which includes color changes, throat inflation and raising the forelegs toward the opponent. The female then has two choices. She can make threatening gestures back, in which case she does not want to mate. If she does want to mate, she will make weak threatening gestures or make no gesture at all in which case the male recognizes her willingness. The male then will circle around the female, grab her neck in his mouth and pull himself on to her back, and insert his hemipenis into her cloacal opening. This entire process usually lasts about 13 minutes. The female will continue mating for 11 days but with not with the same male twice in one day. Gestation lasts approximately 190 days. The young are usually born in the morning. The female everts her cloaca and the young are delivered one at a time onto a branch. They are still surrounded by a gelatinous egg sac and remain asleep until the egg touches the substrate. The young then awaken and stretch and break through their egg sac. At birth young are about 5.5 cm long and weigh around .6 gm. After 20 days the females will copulate again. The young will reach sexual maturity at the age of 9 or 10 months (Zimmermann, 1986).
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East Africa, namely Kenya and Tanzania. (Zimmermann, 1986).
Biogeographic Regions: ethiopian (Native )
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Live-bearing; litter size up to about 40.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) lists all chameleons as threatened. Two reasons for their decline are habitat destruction and the exotic pet trade. Demand for chameleons encourages pet suppliers to take them from the wild and ship them great distances; survival rate may be about 1 in 10, and those that survive arrive malnourished and stressed. Proper care methods for these lizards is not well known, so they may be unknowingly mistreated. Captive breeding has been largely unsuccessful, with the exception of the San Diego Zoo and some private breeders.
CITES: appendix ii
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occurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations
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United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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