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Now that the main gekkotan groups have been introduced, it's time to get down to some of the details. We begin with stuff on lifestyle and behaviour... [gekkotan motley below - mostly assembled from wikipedia - features (top, left to right) Aeluroscalabotes felinus, Pachydactylus bibronii,…
As regular readers of this blog know, many (if not most) of my "Photos of the Day" come from my regular trips to local zoos, primarily the Bronx and Philadelphia parks. I haven't been back to any of them since I got my new camera, but this summer I've got a few trips planned to replace some of my…
Time to press on once more with gekkotan lizards, and again with yet more on the remarkable leaf-tailed geckos (Uroplatus) of Madagascar. So far, we've been introduced to these lizards and have also looked at their anatomical pecularities and on a little bit of their history within the…
A giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), photographed at the National Zoo.
Let me guess, he represents the branch of Geico that insures freighters and tankers.
Here in Hawaii we are seeing more of these. It used to be only the drab house gecko hanging around, loudly defending territory and battling cockroaches. I have one who lives under my refrigerator, with regular trips to the space between stove and cabinets, and as far as the back of the couch. There is another on my lanai, taking care of the plants. I like seeing them, even though they are aliens, because it feels a little less like living in a concrete box and a little more like being in the real world.