Madagascar photos - chameleons, snakes etc.
Just got back from 2 weeks honeymoon in Madagascar (1 week in Andasibe/mantanadia - tropical rain forest in the east and 1 week near the beach on the west coast - dry decidious forest), which was absolutely fantastic. The focus of the trip was the lemurs but I saw a fair amount of reptile and amphibian life too and I thought I'd share some pics. I'm not much of a photographer to begin with but unfortunately I had some real issues with the autofocus (sadly no manual focus on this pretty lightweight digital camera) especially at night so any out of focus shots are there because they are all I have but I found them interesting anyway.
We were very taken by the chameleons and i'm looking into seeing if I think we could possibly keep one.
Unfortunately it was not a good time of year to see any Malagassy Tree Boas
If anyone can identify the unknowns then please let me know!
Relatively small Parson's chameleon (~50cm). At first we though he (note the nose!) was plastic!:
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Juvenile of the same species, 15cm or so, totally different colour:
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This one (about 25-30cm and chunky) lived in a large poinnsetia near our cabin:
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Absolutely stunning camoflauge, about 10cm or so max. Our guide fed her a cricket from his hand:
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This one was high in a tree but the same size and presumably species as the poinsetia one:
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Small ?stump tail chameleons we saw on a night walk - no more than 5cm long. Awful pictures.....:
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Small tree frog and frog spawn on leaf (non related!)
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Collared Iguanid - these guys were everywhere on the west - the largest were perhaps 30cm long:
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Gorgeous Day gecko on drain pipe ~25cm long. Very annoyed that I couldnt focus on the actual lizard depsite 10 or so attempts!:
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Big (6 foot or so) hognose snake - black on top yellow on bottom - he was lying across the path when saw him but by the time I got my camera a glimpse was all I could get:
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Unknown small snake (whip thin and perhaps 30cm long):
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!! Wow. Such beautiful animals, and all in their natural habitat. AMAZING! 
