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House Gecko

Photo by veneta.tashev
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Field Notes

Description:

Small lizard, pale colored. When threatened many geckos loose their tail. This is labeled as autonomy and is used as a defense mechanism by many species of gecko

Habitat:

Tropical

Notes:

The little geco snuck into our fruit bow and when it scrambled out it startled me! But I managed to get a picture of it :)

This is Wildlife with Innovative Defenses.

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PublishedMarch 19, 2012

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