Bart Bear's Blog

If you ask most people they will tell you that cows are Mum's favourite animals. Well, she sure does like cows, but they are not the favourite. These little guys are. This is a gecko, actually a Fijian gecko but you get similar ones almost anywhere you go in the tropics. He lives in the crack in the walls in this old Fijian hotel. Geckoes are lizards with very special feet that allow them to climb walls and run across ceilings. The feet are covered in millions of microscopic hairs that cling to almost everything; teflon is the only stuff known that geckoes can't climb on. Every night the little guys come out and stalk insects for food, so people in the tropics usually are glad to have a family of geckoes running around the walls and ceilings keeping the flies and mozzies in check and chirping away talking to each other. Every time we are on holidays Mum checks for geckoes and is really happy when she sees them. The geckoes might not be so happy to see her though, because she scares them with the camera flash trying to get their picture.

Labels: animals, Fiji