Geckos are nice animals. In our house in Ethiopia, they lurked next to the light bulbs on the ceiling and were part of our integrated insect pest management program (the other components being free roaming spiders, mosquito nets and mozzy coils).
Nature News led me to some cool research on geckos (Active tails enhance arboreal acrobatics in geckos, by Jusufi et al. in PNAS). The story made it to the cover of the journal. I think their Figure 4 (see reprint) would make a good T-shirt cover too.
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Gecko stuff
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- Wednesday, 19 Mar ch 2008 - 11:12 GMT
Last updated: Wednesday, 19 Mar 2008 - 11:12 GMT
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In the home where I grew up in Durban, the bathroom window was next to an outdoor light and the see-through geckos were beautifully illuminated from the viewpoint of the bath. It was especially satisfying, and graphically anatomical to watch them eat moths!
(though of course, we would also have preferred them to have eaten more mosquitoes!)