Our Chapel Chameleon

 This chameleon lives at the Manga church grounds. He (?) had quite an adventure.  He walked across the sidewalk here and is spotted.

 Hit the green stuff (crabgrass?) and loses his spots.

 Further out in the area he encounters two men who are cutting the lawn and gets a little agitated, changing colors again.

 Then some Elders found him and got him a little more more on edge.

 Now he is really, really mad at the world.  His color has become very dark and he is hissing.

We thought it was a really neat thing to see, but the two men who were caring for the lawn gave the little guy (about 7"long) a very wide berth. The local people are very nervous about these creatures.  They think touching them will bring very bad things and if you get bitten you will become ill and possibly die.  You can see the patch that they left uncut.   It was fun to watch, because it was just like National Geographic!  He even has toes that curl around branches just like in the magazine pictures.