The effects of incubation temperature on behavior in chameleons…

[kinyonga]

“ Colder-incubated eggs exhibited a longer incubation period, but produced larger faster-growing hatchlings. Incubation treatment also affected a chameleon's activity level and its unique foraging tactics. Cold-incubated animals were more sedentary, caught prey faster, and extended their tongues farther to reach prey than did their warm-incubated counterparts. Thus, the fitness costs of low temperatures in the nest (slow development, and thus late hatching) may be offset by incubation-derived enhancements in hatchling growth rates and foraging abilities”…
https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2006&context=smhpapers1

 

[dinomom]

“ Colder-incubated eggs exhibited a longer incubation period, but produced larger faster-growing hatchlings. Incubation treatment also affected a chameleon's activity level and its unique foraging tactics. Cold-incubated animals were more sedentary, caught prey faster, and extended their tongues farther to reach prey than did their warm-incubated counterparts. Thus, the fitness costs of low temperatures in the nest (slow development, and thus late hatching) may be offset by incubation-derived enhancements in hatchling growth rates and foraging abilities”…
https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2006&context=smhpapers1

So interesting!! In a colder year they hatch later so have to grow faster and be better at catching prey!

 

[elizaann2]

Wow that is super interesting!

 

[MissSkittles]

So many questions of how, yet nature just knows.

 

[elizaann2]

So many questions of how, yet nature just knows.

Seriously... Nature is actual magic.