Voeltzkows Chameleon last seen a century ago, has been found during Madagascar expedition

I find it both alarming and a relief that a species can be living wild for a whole century without humans spotting it.

Researchers from Germany and Madagascar went on an expedition to the north west of the island and found a few living specimen.

Given the speed with which animals have been disappearing from the earth over the last few centuries,it is encouraging to find one actually still exists. It is thought that they only live during the rainy season, hatching growing mating laying eggs and then dying all within one season.

Unfortunately as with almost all other wild habitat, the area that they live in is threatened, so the change in their status may not last long

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