A popular TikTok video doesn't show a chameleon changing colors. Rather, it's a composite video that used digital-editing software to change the chameleon's colors.
A video shows a chameleon quickly changing colors as it climbs a series of connected colored pencils.In mid-November 2020, a video supposedly showing a chameleon rapidly changing colors as it climbed a series of connected colored pencils went viral on social media. One posting of this video on TikTok racked up more than 6 million views:
In the final seconds of this video, a message in Chinese is displayed that loosely translates to"this is a composite video." This disclaimer was edited out of some versions of this video that circulated on social media. in July 2020. This account, which appears to be dedicated to one person's pet chameleon, also identified this video as a"composite movie" in the original posting.
“People believe that if you put a chameleon on chessboard it’s going to hide by taking the same pattern or color, but this is of course is not true,” says Michel Milinkovitch, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Geneva and an expert on animal skin color.
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