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The Tokay geckos are nocturnal creatures and so are rarely seen during the day.

Inside, wrapped in newspaper, were a dozen Tokay geckos being smuggled in as pets.

Tokay geckos are frequently traded for medicinal purposes in Vietnam and China.

Fortunately, he said, not much, although a few species, like the Tokay gecko from India, are quite aggressive and prey on native lizards.

The Tokay gecko is nocturnal.

A single seta of the tokay gecko is roughly 110 micrometers long and 4.2 micrometers wide.

The tokay gecko is quickly becoming a threatened species in the Philippines, where it is locally known as tuko, because of indiscriminate hunting.

And Steve goes into the upside-down world of the tokay gecko, which uses its incredibly sticky feet to defy gravity in its hunt for moths.

Notable animals that were kept included a snapper turtle, an African rock python, a tokay gecko and Round Island skinks.

The four-clawed gecko shares with the Tokay gecko an unusual ability (for lizards): it is able to vocalize, making chirping noises reminiscent of a cricket.

Could my pests have natural enemies on the food chain, something besides the Tokay gecko that barks at night and looks like a Tokay gecko?

The scientists studied the feet of tokay geckos, which are covered with hundreds of thousands of tiny hairs, called setae, each about one-tenth the diameter of a human hair.

The combined force of the roughly two million setae on a tokay gecko, the researchers reported in the journal Nature, is far more than needed to counteract the force of gravity.

Although species such as the Tokay Gecko are very widespread and common, some species in the same genus have a very small range and are considered rare or endangered.

These include Burmese pythons, Cuban crocodiles, boa constrictors, matamata turtles, dwarf caimans, green anacondas, tokay geckos and several species of poison dart frog.

Gekko gecko, Tokay gecko - A large, common, Southeast Asian gecko that is known for its aggressive temperament, loud mating calls, and bright markings.

Kigoy also visited the Industrial House in a Tokay gecko costume to harass the housemates, especially former Slums housemates Luz and Pamu.

Other lizards, like the Tokay Gecko from tropical Asia, are nocturnal, largely insectivorous and able to walk upside down, even on glass, by means of feet with special pads on the toe tips.

The largest population of the reptile Tokay Gecko Gekko gecko occurs in the cliffs and boulder crevices in upper Tung Chung Valley (Lau, pers.

The most popular member of the family, the Tokay gecko, has bluish-green skin and orange spots and ranges from two inches to eight inches long, with feet that look padded with dental floss but stick to anything.

The tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) is a nocturnal arboreal gecko, ranging from northeast India, to Nepal and Bangladesh, throughout Southeast Asia, Philippines to Indonesia and western New Guinea.

The Predator Solution There is a cadre of New Yorkers, however, who say there's no need to wait for science to get its act together, a solution is already available - the small lizard called the Tokay gecko.

Their recorded value of 20 Newtons of force for two front limbs for a Tokay gecko was a starting point for a large body of research on bioadhesion and synthetic production of gecko setae, which has captured significant attention in the public eye.

Similar looking species include Gekko taylori and Gekko gecko.

The largest population of the reptile Tokay Gecko Gekko gecko occurs in the cliffs and boulder crevices in upper Tung Chung Valley (Lau, pers.

The tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) is a nocturnal arboreal gecko, ranging from northeast India, to Nepal and Bangladesh, throughout Southeast Asia, Philippines to Indonesia and western New Guinea.