Showing posts with label reptiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reptiles. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

A gecko encounter

My wife is terrified of geckos, which belong to the lizard family. We had a gecko in our kitchen recently and we had a lot of trouble trying to get it out the house. Here is our struggle in pictures:






Look at the remarkable suction power of its feet!














I scooped up the gecko with a cornflakes box but it tried to escape...


So I carefully moved the cornflakes box outside to the balcony...


Then the gecko gladly posed for a beautiful picture!


With some gentle persuasion, the gecko crawled over the edge of the balcony


The gecko attempted to crawl back up the wall...


But it fell off.

Well,

I sprayed water on it and it fell!

The gecko was remarkably fine and soon crawled off somewhere!