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Butterfly

They bring good luck, and shouldn't be killed or else it's bad luck,

I have one and sometimes he sits on the door of the fridge, quite big

He usually see me coming and leave immediately, tried to catch him once but run away,

mine is 30cm long, how big is yours

Wayne Kerr

^ Johny is on the turps again I see .

Bung they make a nice soup. Skin comes off easy and just boil them up a bit and bung them in a ripe papaya for a bowl. The delish. As for killing them a whack with a stick seems to do the job. If superstitious get someone else to do the dirty deed.


^Gecko soup

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Johnny Longprong

Very bloody disappointing WK. When I think about the f'n work I have put in trying to get your head around the importance of preserving the things natural, the trips to the bush, the marine environment, the fishing knowledge.
Then you suddenly get a bit of a sunburnt neck!!!

Oh shit, pass me a razor blade please.

Begbie

They have some in the reptile house at Edinburgh Zoo with a sign saying that they're an endangered species. We had five of them in our bathroom when we lived in Bangkok.

Sir Burr

Endangered species my arse. Maybe in Edinburgh. Do they deep fry them?

melvbot

Ive got exactly the same problem. The mother one is about a foot long and the 3 or 4 babies are getting on for 6 odd inches. The annoying buggers stay on the wall but then come down for a dump in the kitchen bit. I'd love to get rid of them but they arent doing any real harm.

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Tao

I seen a couple of these fighting each other once, or they could of been shagging, who knows... either way, very aggresive creatures.

Gerbil

I had a girlfriend like that.

Tao

This loving couple were definitely not fighting. They were trying to be quiet but i could see what they were up to and snapped a pic...

Considerably smaller than those big Tokays though.

jandajoy

The Tokay Gecko is the second largest Gecko species, attaining lengths of about 30–40cm (11–15 inches) for males, and 20–30cm (7–11 inches) for females, with weights of 150–300g (5–10 oz). They are distinctive in appearance, with a bluish or grayish body, sporting spots ranging from light yellow to bright red. The Tokay is also considered the "pit bull" of the Gecko world due to the fact that when they bite their human handlers, they often won't let go for up to several hours at a time, and generally cannot be forcibly removed without causing harm to the Gecko. One way of getting a Tokay to release its hold is to submerge the animal in water, which will encourage the lizard to let go, without causing it any harm or undue stress.
Tokays are renowned for their aggressive disposition and (unusually for lizards) their loud vocalizations, sometimes referred to as a "bark". Their mating call, a loud croak, is variously described as sounding like tokeh or gekk-gekk, where both the common and the scientific name (deriving from onomatopoeic names in Malay, Sundanese, or Javanese), as well as the family name Gekkonidae and the generic term gecko come from.

Wikipedia.

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jandajoy

If you thought of keeping one as a pet

www.pet-care-portal.com/tokay-gecko-care-sheet.html

jandajoy

Tokay Gecko Care : Sexing

Adult tokay geckos are fairly easy to sex. You should see a prominent V-shaped row of pre-anal pores just above the cloaca (you know, where the poop comes out of). You will also see what is called a hemipenal buldge. It is just how it sounds. There will be a bulge just above the cloaca as well.
You may notice that females also have the V-shaped pre-anal pores, but they are much less defined. I guess I should have said that sexing is easy once you have positively identified both a male and a female for the first time. After that it's really simple.

Loy Toy

Very interesting information JJ.

Don't think I will be lifting one of their tails to check it's V-shaped pre-anal pores though. Like squeezing the bum scent glands of a Rottweiler but only these fcukers can be more aggresive.

jandajoy

Ah well, no accounting for taste.

Loy Toy

No disrespect intended JJ.

I don't know how the humping thing got on my post. I'll remove it.

I can handle snakes but those slimy things freak me out.

Had one in the bedroom once and couldn't get rid of it. Missus wouldn't sleep in the bedroom until I got a Thai guy in to catch it. He found three others and used welders gloves to handle them. Ate them I believe was their outcome!

jandajoy

Do Thais eat them? They eat most things. The wife has occassionaly cooked up a lizardy stew but it was more a small monitor lizard than a Tokay.

Welding gloves are definately the way to go when handling anything like this. A mate of mine was running tours in the NT and through the Tanami. He got nipped by a Frill necked lizard. Infection set in and it got very serious. All kinds of nasties.

Thetyim

jandajoy

Then simmer a medium sized tokay for 2 hours in the above 'till tender.

good2bhappy

Tokay yang!!!!!!!!!!!!
well about as tasty as rat

Gallowspole

Thai lore tells you to always sleep with your feet covered cos these buggers might come along and bite your toes. If you are unfortunate to get one attached to your extremities you have to lick your finger and then shove it up your arse to make it let go. Apparently.

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