If a chameleon walked on a mirror, what would happen?

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Is this the answer to harry potters invisibility cloak?

Perhaps it's what stealth planes are made of.

An investigation I think should be carried out.

Answers on a post card. Or below, you choose.
 
I might be wrong, it might not be ALL chameleons, but I do know that MOST chameleons at least, change shade/color according to mood or something like that, not to their background
 
i believe chameleons change color as a form of communication... so i guess the most that could happen is it would get a little confused as to why the conversation was so one sided
 
If we are talking about the old fashioned veiw of the chamewloeon (changing color to blen with the color it walks on, then wouldnt it just stay the clor that it walked on with?
 
Chameleons do change color hugely. They do so to blend into their environment. They can go from dark brown/bark pattern to bright green. They also change colors when angry. However, this change is not instant. When I was in Africa I saw many different chameleons, of various colors. I held several of them, but none long enough that they changed to blend in with what I was wearing. I don't know what a chameleon would do on a mirror, but I'm assuming it would change to a silverish color. The next time I'm in Africa I'm going to have to try this.
 
i remember hearing somewhere that if you put a chameleon in front of something striped it would become angry and turn black. but im not sure how correct this is, because how would it know we just wanted to see it change colors
 
Wow, you're right! I didn't believe you, but I just searched a bit and everything I read concurs with what you said. I'm really surprised. Thanks.
 
even if they changed color based on the background they were standing on, why wouldn't they just change the color of whatever the miror was reflecting?

a mirror isn't invisibility it's just a mirror.
 
heres what wikipedia says...dont hate on me because I used Wiki too...

All chameleon species are able to change their skin color. Changing

color is an expression of the physical and physiological condition of

the lizard.[5] The color also plays a part in communication.

Different chameleon species are able to change different colors

which can include pink, blue, red, orange, green, black, brown and

yellow. [6][7]

Chameleons are naturally coloured for their surroundings as a

camouflage. However, recent research has indicated that Chameleons may

use colour changes as a method of communication, including to make

themselves more attractive to potential mates.[8]

Chameleons have specialized cells, collectively called chromatophores, that lie in layers under their transparent outer skin. The cells in the upper layer, called xanthophores and erythrophores, contain yellow and red pigments respectively. Below these is another layer of cells called iridophores or guanophores, and they contain the colourless crystalline substance guanine. These reflect, among others, the blue part of incident light. If the upper layer of chromatophores appears mainly yellow, the reflected light becomes green (blue plus yellow). A layer of dark melanin

containing melanophores is situated even deeper under the reflective

iridophores. The melanophores influence the 'lightness' of the

reflected light. All these pigment cells can rapidly relocate their

pigments, thereby influencing the colour of the chameleon.

 
umm yea for all of you who are actually serious, this is a joke, we all know that the chameleon would probably just see some lizard-like thing staring back at it..........and then humans would be wiped out
 
^^aaahhhh, making it not exist, making the core of human existence evaporate and......the covenant would take over and we would need masterchief to go kick some arse holes
 
google

"Putting a chameleon on a mirror seemed a simple enough experiment that I thought that even a writer could perform it. So I did. I built a small, mirrored box, and I bought a color-changing lizard and placed it inside. Although Brand's riddle had been around for 20 years, this was the first time, as far as I know, anyone had actually tried it.

On the mirror the lizard stabilized at one color of green -- the green of young leaves on trees in the spring -- and returned to that one color each time I tried the experiment. But it would spend periods being brown before returning to green. Its resting color in the box was not the same dark brown it seemed to like when out of the mirrored box"

but IMO that guys bs, i think it would turn into a chamillionaire.
 
All good points.

All I know is that if a serpent was in the grass, and it bit you in the heel, you would not know if it was gay.
 
Great Question... Perhaps the chameleon changes color to the color that is being reflected by the mirror. Just an Idea. Or as someone else said perhaps he trips balls and turns tye-dye. LOL
 
I HAVE A BETTER QUESTION

ok, so let's say you have a bunch of 2 way mirrors (1 side mirror, other side see through glass) and you arrange them into a cube, so that the mirror side is on the inside. when you look through the cube what would you see? wouldn't you see infinity?

i want to see if anyone here is smart enough to tell me the answer.

 
it would be infinity because every mirror is reflecting another mirror which is reflecting a mrror and so on and so forth...but you wouldn't notice because there is nothing IN the cube, so you are seeing infinity but it just looks like a mirror.
 
but chameleons see with their eyes, not their tits so they would be looking at whats around them, not theirself
 
THAT is a fucking crazy motherfucker to think of. holy fuck, that's fucking inmotherfuckingsane. yes i did try to say fuck a lot...

but seriously...someone needs to do this. and video tape it.
 
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