My final comment is causing some confusion. I meant at the end that they’ve changed over many many generations due to evolution, not one animal changing because it walks in front of some differently colored leaves.
You have absolutely phrased this in a way that is likely to provoke anger. Because while you have not provided any new information, you put a new spin on it, that makes old information seem dangerous and bad... Which is wrong because i'm old, And if you say old things are wrong and bad, that means i'm wrong and bad 😢
@@markmaurer6370Hey, biologist here. There is a whole concept of environmental selection where a mutated gene increases in gene frequency over time due to selection pressures, which means that the chameleon’s ‘natural skin’ randomly ended up being the way that it is because other chamelons with different ‘natural skin’ died off. I think it was already quite clear to me in the video as a biologist, but i can see how it would be a bit confusing to those without a biology background 😊
@@ayeshashah550this is a great response that helps explains things! @markmaurer6370 this should help clear up some things. Old isn’t bad, information and understanding is just constantly changing :)
You can also find vids of them creating mesmerizing patterns moving over their body using chromatophores to “hypnotize” their prey. I love cephalopods.
The point was that they don’t change color to blend in with their environment instantaneously. The ones that do on average match with their environment, evolved to have that as a base skin color.
Yes sorry, I meant at the end that they’ve changed over many many generations due to evolution, not one animal changing because it walks in front of some differently colored leaves.
Are you brain dead they made it very clear they don’t spontaneously change color to blend with what there near but they can possibly be born with a pigmentation more similar to their environment because of evolutionary reasons
Isn't all camouflage due to environmental pressures though? I feel like I am missing something here... So a ton of chameleons don't use it for camouflage but some do? Even if they are not aware of it and it is only specific to the environment they live in?
And I dont eat cause im hungry I eat cause I see or smell food I even eat when others or eating or when when my belly is anti-full but not cause im hungry... 😂😂😂
Or, perhaps, their tempertature reflects their immediate surroundings? So of they have lots of sunshine through mottled body interprets the constant shifting temp as green, open sun means brown, internal anger means danger mode, etc.?
i did a report on chameleons in the first grade and i still remember talking about them changing color in response to “pregnancy or breeding behaviors” i had 0 chill 😂
so they do not observe their envionment to change their color to blend in, to reduce chance to be eaten.. their cells know the color and change accordingly👍
Anybody else rememeber that clip of a chameleon being presented multiple pairs of sunglasses, changing as he'd approach them? I wouldn't doubt if it was fake, but the memory is from farrr out. Always thought it was a tad too good to be true, but curious the memory pops up for anybody else.
Umm yes... Smith's dwarf chameleon (Bradypodion taeniabronchum), also known as the Elandsberg dwarf chameleon, is a species of lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae endemic to Fynbos in South Africa's Eastern Cape. As in several species of chameleons in the genus Bradypodion, the Smith's dwarf chameleon can use its color-changing ability to actively camouflage itself depending on the vision of the specific predator species (for example, bird or snake) by which it is being threatened.
No hon, she said that chameleons as a group have evolved over a long long time to blend into their environment, just like many other animal species. They do NOT instantaneously and consciously change their color specifically to blend into their background.
Chameleons employ structural color. Something so complex to pull off it strains credibility to think that “evolution” can even take advantage of bizarre physics we only recently discovered.
But why? If they can consciously change colors you'd think that the ones who automatically change their color to the surrounding stuff would have an advantage over a static camouflage.
Wait. So whats it called when their temperature changes in day and night and they match the biological clocks in their colors? Is that not environmental camouflage? To be darker at night and brighter during the day? Maybe as emotional context of intellectual emotion for these lizards? Like the blue ring octo and other camouflage animals. It's just not as a super quick response but more of a 24/7 change.
I’m confused about the last thing you said and what I thought before. “Result of environmental pressures, that if you blend in you’re less likely to be eaten” That’s… yes.. that’s what… how’s that… ?
Wait a minute- you just contradicted your whole shtick by saying they’ll fit in with their background to not be eaten. If that’s not adjusting your colors to purposely fit in, I don’t know what is.
I used to catch chameleons to keep as pets when I lived in Guinea 🇬🇳 and I remember seeing two chameleons fighting each other and they were STRIPED with vibrant colors! They absolutely get colorful when they’re mad!
Is it just me or does the one with the beige stripe down it, literally look like one of the branches it’s walking on. Almost like it’s seen it’s environment and changed it’s colour accordingly 🤔
I remember when I was a kid I went to Greece(?) with my parents and a chameleon dropped almost on my head when I was walking next to a pool. It was so cool and I wanted to observe him from afar but the random grownups around me grabbed him and started carrying him around and placing him on different things to see if it would change colour. I think in the end it did but out of fear 🙄
If some of them didn’t turn a certain color they would be eaten so they kinda have to stick to the same color changes, it’s the same with any other lizard that can do this like anoles and even bearded dragons. They mainly change colors based off of if they are hiding/ cold or if they are angry or sun bathing.
I knew it had to do more with temperature which it's still considered an adaptation but that's why when I teach adaptation to 6th graders I don't use the chameleon as an example because I don't want to confuse them.
Ok but like could this also not sorta work, bc when its cold (winter) things look way more dark so they'd blend in better, same with when its summer bc the enviroment would be a lot greener in the places where they live
So yeah they change into the color of they're environment to camouflage when feel threatened but they mostly change based on emotion and temperature, yeah didn't people already know this-? I tought they did? (It's okay if they didn't, is just that I knew it and know other people that did aswell-)
it's soo frustrating how we waste years in prisons, called schools only to have to unlearn most of the things we learned there because they were wrong.,
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My final comment is causing some confusion. I meant at the end that they’ve changed over many many generations due to evolution, not one animal changing because it walks in front of some differently colored leaves.
You have absolutely phrased this in a way that is likely to provoke anger. Because while you have not provided any new information, you put a new spin on it, that makes old information seem dangerous and bad... Which is wrong because i'm old, And if you say old things are wrong and bad, that means i'm wrong and bad 😢
@@markmaurer6370what are you on about. She never attacked old people lol where did you get that from
@@markmaurer6370 i think you just mis-understood the video a bit, old man 😉
@@markmaurer6370Hey, biologist here. There is a whole concept of environmental selection where a mutated gene increases in gene frequency over time due to selection pressures, which means that the chameleon’s ‘natural skin’ randomly ended up being the way that it is because other chamelons with different ‘natural skin’ died off. I think it was already quite clear to me in the video as a biologist, but i can see how it would be a bit confusing to those without a biology background 😊
@@ayeshashah550this is a great response that helps explains things! @markmaurer6370 this should help clear up some things. Old isn’t bad, information and understanding is just constantly changing :)
At least we still have octopuses.
*octopussies
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He's definitely just referencing that one Bond villain. Definitely. Nothing else
The cuttlefish does though. It's amazing. It can make a checkerboard on its skin to match a checkerboard floor. It also changes shape
You can also find vids of them creating mesmerizing patterns moving over their body using chromatophores to “hypnotize” their prey. I love cephalopods.
@@a_plus_luxe3426I eat them every day, they are amazing fried 🎉
The Mimic Octopus and others can also change the texture of their skin to match the environment.
They’re not observing it, cuttlefish are colorblind and can change color and texture in complete darkness.
As tier zoo has said, “they use this ability to EMOTE”
The Smith's chameleon can change colours to match its environment - it's the only chameleon that does.
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😭 I hope I wasn't lied to about octopuses too.
Octopodes DO change their color/texture to blend with their environment
And also to communicate! They seem extremely versatile 😮
Those octopods are always upto something
Same with squid but not always texture and blending in with background and light levels
@@CeeJMantis Was my poor attempt at a joke. I had incorrectly thought chameleons were aware of their surroundings like octopodes until this video.
They don’t change color to match their environment until they… change color to match their environment. Got it.
Exactly what I got out of this...
Glad im not the only one who thought that
The point was that they don’t change color to blend in with their environment instantaneously. The ones that do on average match with their environment, evolved to have that as a base skin color.
Yes sorry, I meant at the end that they’ve changed over many many generations due to evolution, not one animal changing because it walks in front of some differently colored leaves.
Are you brain dead they made it very clear they don’t spontaneously change color to blend with what there near but they can possibly be born with a pigmentation more similar to their environment because of evolutionary reasons
So they change color just not the reasons we originally thought
Lady who thinks she's disproven observed reality actually just wants to use new different words to describe reality.
Ngl it got even cooler when I knew
Isn't all camouflage due to environmental pressures though? I feel like I am missing something here...
So a ton of chameleons don't use it for camouflage but some do? Even if they are not aware of it and it is only specific to the environment they live in?
And I dont eat cause im hungry I eat cause I see or smell food I even eat when others or eating or when when my belly is anti-full but not cause im hungry... 😂😂😂
Or, perhaps, their tempertature reflects their immediate surroundings? So of they have lots of sunshine through mottled body interprets the constant shifting temp as green, open sun means brown, internal anger means danger mode, etc.?
This is actually better. They're communicating 😭❤️
Actually it's still cool that they change color to communicate. I'll take whatever win I get
A chameleon fight is a thing I have never imagined before 😂
i did a report on chameleons in the first grade and i still remember talking about them changing color in response to “pregnancy or breeding behaviors” i had 0 chill 😂
So they blend in their environment because of an adaptation for survival, and have developed changing colors as a way of communication?
Yes
I’ve heard they go really dark, almost black if they’re sick or dehydrated too. ❤
I don’t know why people would be upset about this, the communication aspect is way cooler in my opinion
I was lied to 😭. I feel like school taught me the opposite
No worries, imma just assume its magic regardless.
so they do not observe their envionment to change their color to blend in, to reduce chance to be eaten.. their cells know the color and change accordingly👍
How does one communicate when blending into something?
“I’m gonna blend into this branch… notice me.”
what if they feel like looking like the tree they're hanging on? that's a valid emotion right?
all i took away from this video is that chameleons change color according to their surroundings 😁
They arent a seffalopod they're a reptile
So they don't do it *at will*. But they still are capable of it.
We still got cuttlefish. This is fine.
Anybody else rememeber that clip of a chameleon being presented multiple pairs of sunglasses, changing as he'd approach them? I wouldn't doubt if it was fake, but the memory is from farrr out. Always thought it was a tad too good to be true, but curious the memory pops up for anybody else.
Squids do, octopuses too, and how cute are they?!
That would be an octopus
That was quite stupid....you literally defined camouflage
Umm yes... Smith's dwarf chameleon (Bradypodion taeniabronchum), also known as the Elandsberg dwarf chameleon, is a species of lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae endemic to Fynbos in South Africa's Eastern Cape. As in several species of chameleons in the genus Bradypodion, the Smith's dwarf chameleon can use its color-changing ability to actively camouflage itself depending on the vision of the specific predator species (for example, bird or snake) by which it is being threatened.
Chameleons don't... but Octopus and friends... they do!
She just said they don’t and then they do at the end 😭
No hon, she said that chameleons as a group have evolved over a long long time to blend into their environment, just like many other animal species. They do NOT instantaneously and consciously change their color specifically to blend into their background.
@@maddieb.4282 except all the videos where they do lolol
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Please. I want to know more about your sweater. It looks so comfy
Rude
You BETTER apologize you professional scientist!
Chameleons employ structural color. Something so complex to pull off it strains credibility to think that “evolution” can even take advantage of bizarre physics we only recently discovered.
But why? If they can consciously change colors you'd think that the ones who automatically change their color to the surrounding stuff would have an advantage over a static camouflage.
I guess it’s just not really necessary
Wait.
So whats it called when their temperature changes in day and night and they match the biological clocks in their colors? Is that not environmental camouflage? To be darker at night and brighter during the day? Maybe as emotional context of intellectual emotion for these lizards?
Like the blue ring octo and other camouflage animals. It's just not as a super quick response but more of a 24/7 change.
I’m confused about the last thing you said and what I thought before.
“Result of environmental pressures, that if you blend in you’re less likely to be eaten”
That’s… yes.. that’s what… how’s that… ?
that is so cool actually
The aliens arrived on a Friday night,
No-one knows how the violence started,
But they began attacking those with heavy make up and the clowns first.
Wait a minute- you just contradicted your whole shtick by saying they’ll fit in with their background to not be eaten. If that’s not adjusting your colors to purposely fit in, I don’t know what is.
... The chameleon should be sorry for making us believe that!
Jokes aside, even though, it's astounding they are able to change color at all!
Crazy how many people failed at this test of listening, basic education, and critical thinking 😂
I used to catch chameleons to keep as pets when I lived in Guinea 🇬🇳 and I remember seeing two chameleons fighting each other and they were STRIPED with vibrant colors! They absolutely get colorful when they’re mad!
Is it just me or does the one with the beige stripe down it, literally look like one of the branches it’s walking on. Almost like it’s seen it’s environment and changed it’s colour accordingly 🤔
Don't be sorry it's just a fact. Hopefully it will keep someone from buying one for the wrong reasons. 👍🙂
So camouflage is a side effect that helps them hide from predators? They don't do it on purpose but they still get camouflage? What's the difference?
I remember when I was a kid I went to Greece(?) with my parents and a chameleon dropped almost on my head when I was walking next to a pool. It was so cool and I wanted to observe him from afar but the random grownups around me grabbed him and started carrying him around and placing him on different things to see if it would change colour. I think in the end it did but out of fear 🙄
HA! Joke's on you, I already knew this... :sadface:
Your video shows a Cameleon camouflaging to brown while it is moving in brown twigs….
I spent my childhood on the discover channel, my grandma and I have always known this.
You contradict yourself. At the end you say the do camouflage into their environment so they’re not eaten which has always been the argument.
Yeah, whatever research this is based on, we need to take a good long look at it.
Because some 100% do and I've seen it firsthand with mine.
That messes up generations of cartoons! First Pluto now this! (lol?)
If some of them didn’t turn a certain color they would be eaten so they kinda have to stick to the same color changes, it’s the same with any other lizard that can do this like anoles and even bearded dragons. They mainly change colors based off of if they are hiding/ cold or if they are angry or sun bathing.
But cuttlefish do observe their environment? Even tho they can’t see like us?
I knew it had to do more with temperature which it's still considered an adaptation but that's why when I teach adaptation to 6th graders I don't use the chameleon as an example because I don't want to confuse them.
Ok but like could this also not sorta work, bc when its cold (winter) things look way more dark so they'd blend in better, same with when its summer bc the enviroment would be a lot greener in the places where they live
I can't believe your chameleon told you all this. Mine never says anything
I actually think this is really interesting.
Makes me curious about underwater creature who are also thought of as changing color to blend in
I think it might be a dual adaptation. At least, it appears to be in agamids. Given that they fulfill the same niche in different places.
So yeah they change into the color of they're environment to camouflage when feel threatened but they mostly change based on emotion and temperature, yeah didn't people already know this-? I tought they did? (It's okay if they didn't, is just that I knew it and know other people that did aswell-)
...shows pictures of them blending into their environment. they have to observe to do this no?
I’m very curious to know how science knows this. It seems to me that you would have to observe the inner life of one of these guys, which we can’t do.
Accidental camouflage is still camouflage….??
In this comment section: people who have no idea how evolution works.
But Why why would you tell me that, I can never forgive you.😞
Ayooooo Alex what da fuuuuuh?!?!?
Still one hell of a cool animal and ability. 😉
it's soo frustrating how we waste years in prisons, called schools only to have to unlearn most of the things we learned there because they were wrong.,
I do change color do to camouflage to my environment. Like lady have not talked to no of the higher council
Apology not accepted! Everyone deserves a refund!
I wonder if anything I learned as a kid mattered because all of it I've had to relearn because it turned out to be wrong 🤪
Lmao it’s funny you say that because I was telling people about this same thing the other day
Also not all chameleons look like that. The Anole is a lizard that looks like a regular lizard and is a chameleon
So, the cuttlefish are the real ones blending into their environment, right?
The true art of transformation can only be performed by foxes, racoons, and a few cats.
I actually never thought it had anything to do with their environment i was always of the understanding it was to not be eaten by a predator.
Chameleons are not cuttlefish. Check.
But doesn’t being aware of ur environment and then blending into it mean the same thing as what u said it wasnt?
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
im choosing to believe you just havent found the ones that do use it like that
no this is way cooler than camouflage actually
So they are walking mood rings?
Octopi do though.
She better not come after roadrunners and coyotes next.
Theyre just moodrings😢
I think this is falso because I think it’s false
That’s actually more cool XD
And the world became a little less magical 😢.
You are debunking yourself
Well you SHOULD be sorry T_T