The Common House Gecko (Mini Documentary)

1 year ago
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My first stab at a wildlife documentary, a closer look at the Common House Gecko. They are small lizards that like to live in urban environments on walls and near lamps, and provide free population control for the roaches, mosquitos, etc.

It is also known as Hemidactylus Frenatus, Asian House Gecko, Pacific House Gecko Wall Gecko, House Lizard, Tayoto, Chipkali, Moon Lizard.

The video I mentioned showing them eating rice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngf_JGSIlyo
The paper I mentioned at the end of the video: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4233685/
Another paper saying a different thing: https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1529/biophysj.105.065268
Interesting paper about the sounds they make: https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.2307/3891412

0:00 Intro
0:28 What's their name and where are they from?
1:10 Eggs and life cycle
1:44 Nocturnal behaviour
3:16 Daytime behaviour
3:40 How do they stay clean?
4:04 Sounds, territorial behaviour
6:21 Defense mechanisms
7:06 Coexistence with humans
7:40 Story time
8:30 More to learn
8:53 The end

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