Awesome Viplav Ji ....
I really like this snap
Tanay
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:51 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> An Indian Chameleon ploughing through the barbed limbs of *Prosopis
> juliflora* at twilight.
>
> Clicked in mid-July in a scrubland near Madanpura, Kachchh. Have never seen
> it on armed vegetation before and it did endure some abrasion.
>
> Having read the following comment by Salim Ali, I faced *Prosopis
> juliflora* for any sign of bird-life but encountered a chameleon!
>
> "In recent years *Prosopis juliflora* has been widely planted by the
> Forest Department in the barren salt-lands bordering the Rann as part of
> their desert reclamation programme. It has taken well, and now forms
> flourishing and extensive thickets here and there. Curiously enough, in
> spite of the shade it provides in a land where any shade is welcome and, *
> contra* its congener *P. spicigera*, this species is studiously avoided by
> birds of all kinds." - Salim Ali, September 1960 [A Bird's Eye View, vol. 1,
> pg. 387]
>
> Best wishes, Viplav
>
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