Locale Ambilobe panther chameleon
The Madagascan population an animal descends from, and what displaying adult males from there look like — the reds and whites of an Ambilobe, the blue of a Nosy Be, the red of a Tamatave.
How it is produced
- Where it comes from
- This is not a single gene. It is produced by choosing which animals to breed, over generations.
- What that means for breeding
- No offspring percentage can be given for it. Breeders judge it by looking at the parents.
Offspring odds
No numbers for this one.
Locale is produced by selective breeding over generations, not by a single gene, so no offspring percentage can be given for it. Breeders judge it by looking at the parents.
Worth knowing. A locale is a population, not a gene. It does not combine with another locale and no pairing produces a ratio of them, and crossing locales is widely discouraged because the offspring belong to no population and cannot honestly be sold as either parent.
Worth knowing. The colour this species is famous for belongs to displaying adult males. Females stay small and brown, peach or grey for life, and a male's colour changes with mood, temperature and health — an animal bought on a photograph will not look like that photograph most of the time.
What this rests on
Established by breeders through repeated crosses and recorded in community documentation, not by published genetics. That is how almost all morph inheritance is known — and it is worth saying rather than presenting it as laboratory fact.