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More animals
And now for something completely different: the amazing African Jacana (or Actophilornis africana, for the cognoscenti), another denizen of the Zürich rain forest, which is distinguished by having (relative to size) the longest toes, and the longest claw on the rear toe (if I believe, as I have no reason not to, the official Masoala rainforest guide). Here is a first picture:
Notice the baby Jacana on the left (the adult is likely to be the father, since the male takes care of the eggs in this species).
Here is a closer view of the baby:
It gets its big toes pretty young…
Chameleons again
Continuing the tradition of the ever-popular series of posts on animals of the Zurich rainforest, here are some of yesterday’s pictures of a baby chameleon:
For scale, the whole animal is about 10 centimeters long (4 inches).
(We believe this is a baby and not a dwarf chameleon, though there certainly exist much smaller adult ones, simply because there is no species of dwarf chameleon in the Masoala exhibit).