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How do chameleons change colour?
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How do chameleons change colour?
I need to know, because I want to be able to do it.
Please explain.
:crazyeyes
I need to know, because I want to be able to do it.
Please explain.
:crazyeyes
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That means you'll never be able to do it.
*runs for ze hills*
:crying:
god, so deep..*mellows out*
feel the rainbow.... be the rainbow....:yes: aha! you have become the rainbow.... *shuts the fuck up*
Thanks, but that page just says *when* they change, I want to know *how*.
In their skin they have this polymer which in its normal state is tiny, but when an electrical current or heat or something is applied to it, it can expand to something like 100 times its own size, and the expanded polymer is a different colour to the condensed one, and so the chameleon changes colour.
They have different types of polymers for different colours, and different currents make different ones expand.
People are trying to harness it for use in something or other. Im trying to find the srticle but with no luck. I'll keep looking!
Still want to give it a go?
basically its due to them bein cold blooded and wen they go on different coloured things (which absorb different amounts of heat) their colour changes accordingly cos their blood heats up due to the chemical changes occuring in the blood!
And they can change colour very rapidly without changing environment. So how does the blood thing work?
http://science.howstuffworks.com/animal-camouflage2.htm
Mr_Wobble
WHich should be here
which is from here
Knew i'd read it somewhere!
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chameleon
someone has GOT to get this
Not me
D'oh. I get it now. :rolleyes: Stupid me. I like that song as well!
in that case, you suck *no offence*
Thanks
I don't have bags of dye inside me though.
So I'll have to go for polymers. heh.
SKITTLES!!!1 ME WANT!!!!!!!!!!