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Two wall sculptures of geckos on the wall of the Mandapam of the Siva temple inside Vellore Fort, Tamil Nadu, India (2012) In the Philippines, geckos making a ticking sound are believed to indicate an imminent arrival of a visitor or a letter. [37] But in Thailand, if a common house gecko chirps when someone leaves the house, that's a bad omen.
Skinks are generally carnivorous and in particular insectivorous. Typical prey include flies, crickets, grasshoppers, beetles, and caterpillars. Various species also eat earthworms, millipedes, centipedes, snails, slugs, isopods (woodlice etc), moths, small lizards (including geckos), and small rodents.
Geckos are unique among lizards for their vocalisations, which differ from species to species. Most geckos in the family Gekkonidae use chirping or clicking sounds in their social interactions. Tokay geckos ( Gekko gecko ) are known for their loud mating calls , and some other species are capable of making hissing noises when alarmed or threatened.
Common house geckos, mating, ventral view with hemipenis inserted in the cloaca. A hemipenis (pl.: hemipenes) is one of a pair of intromittent organs of male squamates (snakes and lizards). [1] [2] [3] Hemipenes are usually held inverted within the body, and are everted for reproduction via erectile tissue, much like that in the human penis ...
Gekkonidae (the common geckos) is the largest family of geckos, containing over 950 described species in 62 genera. [1] [2] ...
Scleroglossa is a group of lizards that includes geckos, autarchoglossans (scincomorphs, anguimorphs, snakes and varanoids), and amphisbaenians.Scleroglossa is supported by phylogenetic analyses that use morphological features (visible anatomical features).
[6] [10] [17] Generally, skinks are the main prey item taken but other legless lizards and geckos are also a part of the diet of Burton's legless lizard. [ 3 ] [ 10 ] [ 17 ] In addition, it has been reported that this species will eat small snakes on rare occasions and this has been documented in a study of the stomach contents of museum ...
Scincomorpha is an infraorder and clade of lizards including skinks (Scincidae) and their close relatives. These include the living families Cordylidae (girdled lizards), Gerrhosauridae (plated lizards), and Xantusiidae (night lizards), as well as many extinct taxa.