The Karroo Dwarf Chameleon (Bradypodion karrooicum) is a chameleon native to South Africa. It has also been classified as Chamaeleo pumilus karrooicus. Discovered in 1915, it is about 14 cm (6 inches) long, mostly coloured grey and brown, sometimes olive. The thin skin around the throat is yellow, and it has conical scales along the spine.
The Karroo National Park near Beaufort West in South Africa.
Though much of the Karroo is very dry, some areas, made fertile by seasonal rains, are used for sheep rearing and crop growing.
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The largest of these level areas, the Great Karroo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.
Of reptiles the lizard and chameleon are common, and there are a number of venomous serpents, though these are not so numerous as in other tropical countries.
At the close of the Karroo period there was a remarkable manifestation of volcanic activity which again has its parallel in the Deccan traps of India.
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