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🦎 Chameleon Microhabitat: Basking, Shade, Camouflage Contrast and Ballistic Tongue

A 30 g chameleon on a sun-and-shade branch balances a lumped heat budget, trades dark warming skin against hawk-visible contrast, and strikes flies with an elastic tongue that keeps working when the muscles are cold.

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A 30 g chameleon on a sun-and-shade branch balances a lumped heat budget, trades dark warming skin against hawk-visible contrast, and strikes flies with an elastic tongue that keeps working when the muscles are cold.

ChameleonThermoregulationCamouflageHeat BudgetEcologyThree.jsBlender

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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