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[RMDupree]

Hey there, Sam!

I was just talking about some of our more popular reptilian friends. :-D

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

The indoors ones stay on the floor... at least, I've only ever seen them on the floor and along the baseboards.

The outdoors ones hang on the walls, the windows, anything they can hang on. Some of them change color to blend in with their background, too.

[RMDupree]

COOL!

I've only seen lizards that change color a few times in my lifetime.

I'm off to bed. I'm beat.

Nighty night everyone!

[Sam Cree]

Hi Ruthie.

Yes, I saw the pictures. They reminded me of right before our son's bar mitzvah, which was right before Hurricane Andrew, there were a couple of those big green numbers in a tree, we were taking potshots at 'em with a BB gun.

I do also notice that the iquana population of So FL is increasing pretty rapidly, although I think the chilly winter trimmed them back some.

I like the geckos, in part for the cool sounds they make.

[Sam Cree]

Good night, Ruthie.

[JenB]

Geckos make sounds? What, like squishy noises when you step on 'em?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Hi, Sam.

I like the geckos, in part for the cool sounds they make.

I haven't noticed any of the ones here in Texas making any sounds....

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Ewwww...

[Sam Cree]

"The Gecko's call is remarkably loud and clear and can be heard from a long distance; its popular name is derived from its call. Each call consists of a preliminary cackle, then the sound tuk-kaa repeated deliberately and distinctly several times."

I googled that up, it's a fair description. They are very loud. There are some around here that are over a foot long, they may be the ones with the loud voices. It spooked me the first time I heard it, couldn't see the lizard, didn't know what was making the noise. Once we came home and there was a big one on the wall on the side of the house, at about eye level. It growled at us when we approached it.

[JenB]

Huh, that is pretty cool! I will have to keep my ears open should I ever be in Geckoland again.

Night all!

[Sam Cree]

"Tokay gecko, Gekko gecko—This is the lizard for which geckos were named. It is one of the relatively few lizards that vocalizes, and its mating call has variously been described as a loud gek-gek-gek-gekkkk or as tok-eh tok-eh. American soldiers in Vietnam notoriously heard the Tokay gecko's call as something else - to them, it sounded like F*ck you! The Tokay, an attractive but very aggressive species native to Southeast Asia, was in the past popular in the pet trade (apartment-dwellers in New York are sometimes advised by pet-shop owners to let Tokays run free to control cockroaches, though one might expect the vocalizations to be disconcerting!) and the species has naturalized in southern Florida and Hawaii."

From answer.com

[Sam Cree]

On this page, scroll down past the 2 "female warning" calls to "male tokay...mating call" to hear how the sound they are apparently named for.

http://www.gekkota.com/html/sounds_g__gecko.html

Good night all.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

That's pretty cool! The geckos I've seen here are fairly small, maybe 5 or 6 inches from tip to tail at the largest. They probably aren't loud enough to be heard easily.

[Ramius]

I wonder which he liked better. Ginger or MaryAnn?

Well... of course it would be Mary Ann. :-)

[Lil'freeper]

Gooood morning sleepsie hobbitses!

[Corin Stormhands]

mornin'. I've got a very bad feeling about this...

[RMDupree]

Mornin' folks!

There are some really strange kids shows on these days.

[RMDupree]

Ssshhh!!

Just ignore her and she'll go away.

I'm waiting for Tampa to disappear from the cone. Becky is really looking forward to Busch Gardens and I'd hate to back out now because of this stupid rain-n-blow.

[Sam Cree]

That looks like one of those "we don't know what the thing is gonna do" forecasts.

Morning all.

[Overtaxed]

Morning!