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DISANGA, Tanzania Michele Menegon creeps stealthily through short grass before pouncing. Gently, the scientist holds up his prize: an unnamed species of forest agama. He shows the reptile to two of his colleagues before releasing it back into the grass. The agama, one of many unique animals living in the high-altitude rainforests that cover […] ....
Tanzanian herpetologist John Lyakurwa was born and raised in a village at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. The chameleons he and his family encountered on their coffee farm sparked his interest in reptiles. “I learned quickly that they posed no harm to humans,” he told Mongabay. After secondary school, Lyakurwa studied for a bachelor of […] ....
Michele Menegon and a team of local and international scientists have just described six new species of thumb-sized chameleon in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains. The forest-capped mountains form an inland archipelago, stretching 900 kilometers (560 miles) from the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika to the Taita Hills in southeastern Kenya. Much like the 13 islands […] ....