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chameleon
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chameleon
lizard member of the genus Chameleo.


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When Kristopher Karsten, a behavioral ecologist at Texas Christian University, fed chameleons a diet low in vitamin D, he found that the lizards increased their sun exposure to boost vitamin D levels.
By themselves, the observations of dimmed light by Shaw and his colleagues can't distinguish between models that rely on chameleons and models in which photons turn into other 'axion-like' particles.
Because the chameleons all hatch at the same time, the entire population is the same age, apart from a very brief period when adults are still alive after laying their eggs.
 
 
 
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