Sunday, August 16, 2015

National Geographic Photo of the Day: August 16th of 2015

Picture of a chameleon snaring an insect with its tongue
August 16, 2015

Tongue Lashing

Photograph by Christian Ziegler
An insect succumbs to a foraging Calumma chameleon, whose extremely sharp vision allows it to project its long tongue with pinpoint accuracy. A recently released IUCN Red List assessment of chameleons ranked at least half the species as threatened or near threatened.

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