Chameleons Battle for Treetop Territory | BBC Earth

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0:00Madagascar has had a turbulent past.

0:03At its birth, it was ripped from India and Africa,

0:07and the geological upheavals have continued since.

0:17The north of the island is speckled with slumbering volcanoes.

0:25On the forested slopes lives another Madagascar speciality.

0:34A chameleon.

0:37Chameleons weren't amongst those pioneering castaways.

0:42Theirs is a different story.

0:44It's thought that they evolved here in Madagascar itself.

0:50They're wonderfully adapted to a life in the trees.

0:54Their toes are fused, so their feet grip like tongs.

0:59And the arrangement of their legs is unusual for a reptile.

1:02They're beneath their body.

1:04This allows them to walk on branches thinner than their body.

1:18A male panther chameleon,

1:20one of the biggest.

1:27A second male is in his tree.

1:30He won't like that.

1:32If the intruder doesn't back down,

1:34there will be trouble.

1:53They're evenly matched. It's neck and neck.

2:21The territory holder wins,

2:24and the loser takes the quickest way out.

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