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Here be dragons

Postby blacknstormy on Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:20 pm

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Leaf tailed geckos to be more precise :) ;)

Amazing camouflage - perfectly suited to their environment :)

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Re: Here be dragons

Postby ATJ on Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:00 pm

They're not dragons! They are geckos. Different families, as I'm sure you know. :P

Nice detail on both images. Your leaf -tailed gecko (P. cornutus, I assume) has quite a different pattern to the ones around here (P. platurus).
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Postby blacknstormy on Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:03 pm

ATJ wrote:They're not dragons! They are geckos. Different families, as I'm sure you know.

Andrew - yep I know :), but he reminds me so much of a lovely 'fire breathing' dragon (which is the kind of dragon I was referring to :oops: :) ) LOL
And of course the taxonomists have been at work again (so annoying ;) ), and it is now called Saltuarius swaini - cornutus (now also Saltuarius) is found way up north between Cooktown and the southern end of the Paluma Range (I had previously stuffed up and also called it cornutus, Damo promptly smacked me ;) )
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Re: Here be dragons

Postby colin_12 on Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:57 pm

A wiley worm he looks too Rel.
Love those eyes.
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Re: Here be dragons

Postby The Scorpion Man on Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:26 pm

Very nice animals, we dont have this tropical species in SA...for obvious reasons... :lol: Are they mites under the eyes in the first pic?
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Re: Here be dragons

Postby ATJ on Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:46 pm

The Scorpion Man wrote:Are they mites under the eyes in the first pic?

They might be. ;)
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Re: Here be dragons

Postby The Scorpion Man on Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:22 pm

ATJ wrote:
They might be. ;)


I mite have guessed someone would say that.....
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