This is a male Jackson’s chameleon (Trioceros jacksonii) climbing up a tree branch. You can see its heavily lidded eye (1); zygodactylous feet (2), with toes arranged in bundles of twos and threes ...

Horns sprouting from brow and snout. Knobbly nasal ornaments. A skin flap circling the neck like a lace ruff on an Elizabethan noble. Of all its corporeal quirks, the chameleon is most defined by ...

The Meller's chameleon is the largest of the chameleons ... their universally bizarre-looking cousins with a single small horn protruding from the front of their snouts. This and their size ...

It is said to have the tail of a monkey, the skin of a crocodile, the tongue of a toad, the horns of a rhinoceros and the eyes of a who knows what?! A male Jackson’s chameleon 2. Disguise is not ...