Thank you Tanay ji and Dr Pankaj. A special thanks to Dr Neil for his poem on the chameleon and for sharing such remarkable sightings of this fascinating reptile on different trees.
Best wishes to Rohit ji and looking forward to your article. Regards, Viplav 2011/10/21 Neil Soares <[email protected]> > Hi, > Beautiful photograph ! These are mine. > With regards, > Neil Soares. > > --- On *Thu, 10/20/11, [email protected] <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [efloraofindia:88775] Reptilian visitor on Prosopis juliflora > To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Shirin Panveliwala" <[email protected]>, "Hitendra Agrawal" < > [email protected]> > Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011, 11:21 PM > > 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 > >
