mystery of the color changers

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Originally Posted by dr del

Hi,


Wonder if it could be related in some way to lizards darkening to absorb more heat from sunlight in some whacky vestigial way?

Get too warm for too long, lighten up next shed to try and reflect more heat kind of thing. Probably not though and for god sake don't anyone cook their snakes trying to find out.:eek:



dr del

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I wonder if anyone has looked into that ... I mean in a very controlled environment .... that seems like a very interesting theory