Word: chameleonic
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...pets, ornaments and toys, chameleons are more popular in the U. S. than any other reptile. Like hot dogs or lollipops, they are peddled in great numbers by circuses, fairs and carnivals, mostly to people who have no idea how to feed and water them. This wholesale trade was last week giving some concern to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, because it has been found that chameleons help Florida celery growers by eating destructive caterpillars and moths, and the Department now believes that they help suppress insect pests on other truck crops in Southeastern and Gulf States...
Contrary to popular belief, the American chameleon (Anolis carolinensis) does not assume the color of its surroundings. Its color changes, partly reflex and partly voluntary, are stimulated by temperature, illumination, emotion. In summer the chameleon can be given the run of a screened porch, but in winter it needs a cage with plenty of sunlight shining through glass netting or fine screen. Chameleons can drink only by lapping up drops of water sprinkled on plants; hence many die of thirst even with a pan of water in their cages...
...chameleon has a long, sticky, club-shaped tongue with which it is adept at spearing flies and other insects. Since this art requires a nice appreciation of distance, the chameleon, unlike other reptiles, has developed bifocal vision. Recommended diet: flies (except bluebottle flies), mealworms, cockroaches...
...refraction of water distorts the feet of a fisherman standing on a bank. The mosaic structure of a fly's eye gives him a multitude of images. A turtle's world is a shifting scene of bright spots because light Attracts its eyes. A huge chameleon will turn the color of the clothes of the person who may stand before the photocell which constitutes...
...Farr has a lovely left. . . . Farr's left is out like a chameleon's tongue after a fly. ... A most satisfactory fight so far. . . . Farr's sitting pretty, thank you. . . . Farr is playing what we call a one to nothing game, hit and get away. . . . Baer's eye is bleeding nicely. . . . Fame and fortune are in front of Farr...