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#geckos

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

How a #gecko species defied #extinction on a #Galápagos island news.mongabay.com/2025/08/how-

"Mares’s leaf-toed #gecko has been rediscovered on Rábida Island after being thought #extinct for more than a century, with only ancient bones as previous evidence of its existence. Invasive brown rats introduced by ships in the 17th and 18th centuries caused the gecko's decline... A 2011 rat eradication program successfully removed all invasive #rodents, and #geckos were spotted just one year later"

mk30

I think someone has laid new eggs in my gecko hatchery (a little plastic drawer thing)! 😱 (All the previous eggs were placed there by me after I found them in old boxes that I was clearing out.) If a gecko voluntarily laid their eggs here, that means that it really is a good hatchery 🥹. I also noticed that the other eggs that were in there are gone, so maybe the one that laid the new eggs removed the others? Mysteries abound.

Previous gecko hatchery content: regenerate.social/@mk30/114934

#geckos#hawaii
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Tiny elusive gecko rediscovered on one of the #Galapagos islands newscientist.com/article/24890 paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

"The leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus maresi), just 8 cm long, was previously only known to have existed on Rábida from 5000-year-old fossil records. But expeditions collected live specimens in 2019 and 2021, which have now been confirmed as this species... By 2012, invasive rats were successfully removed on Rábida, with nature immediately bouncing back, including the #geckos"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

This flat-bodied South African #gecko was a lost species. It's been found again after 34 years phys.org/news/2025-05-flat-bod

"They were dropped off on the top of one of the canyon's rocky outcrops with sheer cliffs more than 100 m high... the exact same outcrop where they were found in 1991. Pietersen & Davies only had 3 days to find the #geckos, 8-9 cm long when fully grown... they saw 20-30 specimens and captured & photographed 7, giving the world a glimpse of a lost gecko 3 decades in the making."

Bruce Mirken

A problem people outside of #Hawaii likely don't have: A couple of my local #geckos have decided they like hanging out on my car. On at least two recent occasions, this has led to one of them going for a drive they no doubt didn't plan on.

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@fuchsiii @SkyDotBit @enigmatico and yes, in #Thailand people want #Geckos espechally the #Tokeh as tzey are seen as a sign of luck and health to the point that people are often more protective of them than dogs.

  • At leadt from my observation in #Thailand, noone wanted to scare off wild Tokehs...

And so yeah people just let them #chill in their homes cuz that "noisy dog toy" is way more pleasant than Mosquitoes and Cockroaches...
youtube.com/watch?v=V-Asq9JoMq

aphex twink

saw a post about geckos and wanted to post this photo I took of tiny (then undescribed) day gecko species i found right outside my house but i can't seem to find it. here's a another I took while on a survey of the herpetofauna of that region 8 years back in 5 days from today.

i believe the common name and even the scientific name has changed but I know it as the Termite Hill Gecko (Hemidactylus triedrus) and it does get a lot more vividly coloured than this.

#Gecko#Geckos#GeckosOfMastodon
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