Talk:Gecko

Does anyone know how geckos make their noise?

Is "Pasar Tokek" the same as Gekko gecko?

Spatula?

Near the end of the first section: "If a gecko had every one of its spatulae in contact with a surface, it would be capable of holding aloft a 120Kg man.", with a link to the Spatula article. 24.21.149.53 11:59, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Stickeyness

How do they walk on vertical walls? With their special toes... Dora Nichov 14:29, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Opening Paragraph

I think this might be a joke.. look at it

Deleted Geico

Geico does not belong in the Gecko article, as the relation is not encylopedic. Someone made the analogy to Micky Mouse; Micky Mouse is much more famous than Geico. It's also part of a single sentence as part of larger section on mice in popular culture in general, in a longer article. Please comment on the talk page before restoring Geico.

Whoever said the Geico Gecko talks with a South African Accent is also wrong - it's English. I beilieve the actor in question is Jake Wood and he's British. A262 15:36, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Possible typo

I think there's a typo in the right hand column. The error might be "Gekkonidae" as it's spelled "Gekkoninae" in the body of the text, and "Gekkonidae" is only mentioned half a dozen times on Google whereas "Gekkoninae" is very popular.

Hello, if conventions are the same than in France, Gekkonidae is the name of the familly of the geckos (in the biological sense) while Gekkoninae is a sub-familly (still in the biological sense) of the previous one, containing the true geckos.

Please note that depending of the used classification the sub-familly may not appears.

By the way I do not understand why Gekkonidae is a redirect to Gecko, as the first one is about a biological term and the second one is about an animal. Regards, 134.158.71.97 17:04, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Sprerad of Geckos'

Walking home tonight, August in Yokohama, Japan, I saw a cat with its paws against the wall after something. At first I thought it was a lizard on the wall but on closer inspection I was most surprised to see a 3 inch gecko. No doubt about it, it was a gecko (I am a frequent traveller around Asia and recognise gecko's). Tried to catch it but in their distinctive manner wriggled away in a burst of speed. Perhaps an uninvited guest from a traveler to tropical climes, possibly Hawai or Bali. Can't imagine it will survive a Yokohama winter but should be OK for the summer.

Simon - Aug 9 2005

Computer animation?

You mean the talking gecko isn't real? I'm cancelling my policy and suing for fraud! I belived he was real ...I was fooled! :(

add species counts

Mention total numbers of species. --Jidanni 2006-04-15

Parthenogenic species?

A mention on the discussion board for Leopard Geckos made me curious, what species of geckos are capable of asexual reproduction?

Grammer/Formatting Edit

I made a couple of minor grammer/formatting edits to the Common Species list at the end of the article. ClixTrek 06:56, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

New article needs mergin

Indigenous Geckos of Madagascar was just created. Out of my realm. Someone merge, delete or take some action. --meatclerk 11:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I do not believe that this article should be merged to the gecko article for several reasons:

• The main purpose of the article was to describe all of the geckos species that inhabit Madagascar (not done by the page entitled "Gecko")
• None of the species that are mentioned in the article entitled "Gecko" are indigenous to Madagascar.
  • Because the geckos of madagascar are in a specific region of the world, i deemed it unfit to put that information into an article providing a general overview of the geckos as a family of lizards.
• The other purpose was to briefly describe the genus' of geckos briefly for reference to the habitats within madagascar ( a topic only briefly touched upon in the article discussing dry-deciduous ecosystems in madagascar); where this does not occur in the article (the genus Geckolepis), the information for the genus was very limited and not enough to create data of value with the current research).

Bheinrich 15:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Not withstanding natural divisions need for species, as Indigenous Geckos of Madagascar seems to be, 'genus' as you stated should be a seperate over arching article. Nontheless, the aforementioned article needs some merging, perhaps a good subsection, it needs cleanup work(now). Lastly, a 'family' article might be in order.

Respectfully --meatclerk 20:24, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

The problem with it being a bit choppy is the fact that the information on many of these species is very few and far between, for example: the geckolepis genus took about 2 hours to get that measly bit of information and make sure that i had checked the remote corners of the internet for every speck of info, but alas, that seemed to be all of it. I do agree with a future merger, however the current articles for the remainder of the world do not exist, so i believe it would simply be this article along with several blank sections. But yes, it would be nice to have more information included at some point in time but with the information on many of these species is unknown because of the lack of information on many of the creatures of Madagascar. Bheinrich 02:20, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Harmless

Would it be a good idea to add that they are harmless to humans (as I'm guessing they are)? Perhaps where it's said that "several species of geckos make their home inside human habitations." Stop The Lies 22:52, 11 February 2007 (UTC)Stop_The_Lies

Nomenclature, sounds, calls, et cetera.

Is it true geckos are named after the sound they emit? This article is really substandard.  :/ 211.30.71.59 03:17, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Tail liquid?

A few species have the ability to shoot an irritating liquid out of the end of their tails

^Is this true? If so, which species? I've never heard of Geckos being able to do this. O_o After looking around on the internet, this article and its clones are the only places which state that Geckos have this ability...

K00bine 22:00, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Combining pages

Shouldn't the pages Gekko and Gecko be combined? -m-i-k-e-y- 14:39, 25 March 2007 (UTC) Nope, Gecko is common name of the family of lizards and describes the family, Gekko is the latin name, and more taxonomy oriented. 71.197.85.32 04:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

International Space Station

Why is the ISS mentioned here? If there is a point, what is it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.189.91.104 (talk) 13:13, 29 April 2007 (UTC).

Lead is too long

The lead is too long for this article. (WP:LEAD) --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 19:16, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I added a section heading to split it apart. I'm also going to remove that empty "predators" section, as I'd guess they have different ones for each region/species. --Quiddity 04:03, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Van der Waals?

The Gecko foot adhesion is described as van der Wasls forces, shouldn't it be correctly refered to as the Casimir effect, as VdW is generaly used only for describing the intermolular forces on a mollecular scale. For the macroscopic effect of these forces, it is the [casimir effect]