Interesting Facts About Chameleon
Through idioms and similes, you can often hear people questioning someone's loyalty and behavior by saying that he changes his color like a chameleon
Basically, it is a Hindi idiom that is pronounced as "गिरगिट की तरह रंग बदलना"
Everyone has heard about a creature named "chameleon", which keeps changing its color, behind which there might be two reasons: natural and scientific
If a natural cause is observed, the chameleon changes its color to protect itself from predators. The chameleon adapts its color to the same color where it is sitting
Talking about scientific reason, chameleons change their color to convey their different emotions like their anger, aggression and sending signals to each other
The male chameleon even changes its color to attract the female partner. Sometimes they also change color to maintain their body temperature
Different layers exist in its skin. Its outermost layer is transparent and below it, other layers contain pigments called chromatophores, containing light-reflecting cells
The chromatophores at each level are filled with sacs of different kinds of pigment, named xanthophores, erythrophores, iridophores, and melanophores
Chameleons change their color by changing or rearranging the lattice of nanocrystals present in the upper layer of the skin cells