Chop-Chop Chameleon

By MARIA JOSÉ VIÑAS

Furcifer labordi lives fast and dies young.

The three-inch-long Malagasy chameleon spends almost two-thirds of its life cozy and safe inside an egg. But after hatching, the lizard has to hit the ground running: It has only about five months to eat, grow to sexual maturity, reproduce, and die — together with...