Geckos emit sounds which resemble the noise an equestrian makes when he would encourage his horse--smacking their tongues on the palate to produce the sound.
There are about sixteen known species of Geckos distributed in all quarters of the globe, but chiefly in warm countries.
Gray, or the tribe of the Iguanas and their kindred, and that of the Geckos and their kindred.
It is very timid, and though its toes are not formed as in the Geckos and Anoles, for holding on against gravity, I have seen a large Ameiva run with facility on the side of a dry wall, along the perpendicular surfaces of the large stones.
The parietals are paired in Geckos and Chelonia alone among living forms, and in the extinct Ichthyosauria and some Theromorpha; in all other reptiles they are united.
The vertebrae are procoelous, rarely as in the Geckos amphicoelous; they are usually without zygosphenes and zygantra, but these structures occur in the Iguanidae.
These mammals may be compared with the Flying Geckos among reptiles in their parachute-like support by extension of the skin, which gives them one of the conditions of support which contribute to constitute flight.
Sometimes Geckos are found with forked tails; this results from the budding of a rudimentary tail at the side, from an injury done to the member.
Geckos are found in almost all hot countries of the Old World, and nearly three hundred different kinds have been found altogether.
The geckos are a large and ancient family represented in all tropical countries, and some species are common along both shores of the Mediterranean, but none reach the United States.
Four of the geckos had appearances of his former women as much as geckos were able to resemble human beings.
There was a flock of pelicans flying overhead, and geckos trying to elude the birds by floating on top of the mist.
Nearly all geckos are nocturnal and the pupil contracts into a vertical slit, except in a few diurnal kinds, e.
The number of eggs laid is small in comparison with other reptiles, rarely exceeding a score, and some like the anolids and the geckos deposit only one or two.
Procoelous; parietals united; eyelids functional; clavicles expanded as in the truegeckos which they resemble in other respects.
The Lacertilia, or lizards in the wider sense, fall easily into three natural groups: geckos (q.
On Arno Atoll geckos and night-feeding skinks eat large numbers of cockroaches (Usinger and La Rivers, 1953).
Beebe (1925a) keptgeckos in a bungalow to help control Periplaneta and Pycnoscelus.
Geckos of this species have been found in tropical semi-deciduous forest in the coastal lowlands to elevations of 500 meters.
The geckos of the genus Coleonyx with descriptions of new subspecies.
These small geckos were much more abundant than the few specimens indicate.
In El Peten I heard the name used only for Coleonyx elegans and Thecadactylus rapicaudus; in the lowlands of Guerrero, Mexico, the name is applied to geckos of the genus Phyllodactylus.
The first three Geckos mentioned live largely in trees, but the Banded Gecko lives on or near the ground.
The latter is the most gaudily marked of the Geckos found in the United States and is likewise the most abundant.
Through it all the lizards and geckos emitted their clockwork strokes, like strange mysterious time-pieces.
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