Bradypodion thamnobates - Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon.

Bradypodion thamnobates - Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon.

Postby Fooble » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:28 am

Now after a hectic last few weeks I found myself relaxing on a Saturday night at home which isn't all that exciting. So i grabbed my keys and heading out just before dark and drove some 80kms to a spot where I'd always thought the Bradypodion should be.

Now thamnobatesare special chameleons for me, probably one of the first COOL chameleon I ever found in the wild at their type locality of Nottingham Road, Natal Midlands. But these animals picture below were found about 50kms away from the typical location.

This male pictured below I found first, it was about 7m up a massive tree there was no way in hell I could get it down. From the ground I could see it was a mature male and had some nice colouration so I HAD to make a plan to get it down. After duct-taping a 2m sapling tree to my 1m snake grab stick and climbing on the worst bendest rusty wire fence I had managed to tickle this sleeping chameleon onto my sapling tree and brought it down. Hopefully pictures made it worth it?

These individuals seem to favour large tree's and were found much higher than I've typically found thamnobates in Nottingham road.

Bradypodion thamnobates - Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon Male.
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Bradypodion thamnobates - Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon Male.
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Bradypodion thamnobates - Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon Male.
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Bradypodion thamnobates - Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon Female.
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Thanks for looking!

More pictures here: http://www.tyroneping.co.za/chameleons/bradypodion-thamnobates/
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Re: Bradypodion thamnobates - Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon

Postby Mitton » Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:22 pm

Very cool man.
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Re: Bradypodion thamnobates - Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon

Postby Westley Price » Wed Sep 07, 2016 12:20 pm

Little bloody dinosaurs!
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Re: Bradypodion thamnobates - Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon

Postby Ruan Stander » Fri Sep 09, 2016 1:05 pm

They are brilliant little dinosaurs.

Their gular crests look very reduced or are they just juveniles ?
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Re: Bradypodion thamnobates - Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon

Postby Fooble » Mon Sep 12, 2016 12:07 pm

Ruan Stander wrote:They are brilliant little dinosaurs.

Their gular crests look very reduced or are they just juveniles ?


These aren't the typical ones, it's a new spot I found they're very different to the ones at the other location I gave Gary where you guys got those two adults.
These specimens are much smaller. It's about 50kms away from the type locality very weird.
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Re: Bradypodion thamnobates - Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon

Postby Pat@210 » Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:22 pm

An older post response, but I am new to the forum.

Super cool and awesome pics taken!

Thanks for the share ;)
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