Chameleon and camouflage?

[Darwin420]

Greetings,

I am a Biology major and I have been pondering a lot of things lately, and the mechanism that allows chameleon to camouflage is one of them. Does anyone know of any papers written on this topic? I have looked on the internet and couldn't find much. Looks like this is a topic that is not fully understood.

If anyone can't find anything but wants to pool some hypothesis together about this topic let me know, I have a few ideas brewing at the moment.

Get back to me.

[vinfortegs]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chameleon
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camouflage

[Darby]

Good to shy away from Wikipedia as a primary source...

http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlser ... 60025&ct=1

http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/science/ ... eleons.htm

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-chameleon.html

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/1095/icwg.htm

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/s ... nidae.html

And for some nice photos -

http://www.bio-ken.com/chameleons.htm

[Darwin420]

Still doesn't give me a solid explanation.....anyone care to come up with some hypothesis with me?