Petr Necas

Petr spent 30 years travelling the world to honor his great passion for chameleons. He has studied and photographed wild and captive populations in Europe, Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian penninsula, India and the USA and authored dozens of scientific articles and several herpetological books. His book titled; Chameleons, the nature’s hidden jewels is considered a basal work of chameleonology and is published in 5 languages. His book Stump-tailed Chameleons: Miniature Dragons of the Rainforest, the Genera Brookesia and Rhampholeon is the only book soley focused on leaf chameleons ever published. He is of the people that introduced Chamaeleo calyptratus to herpetoculture and almost the entire US population originated from Petr.