Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:25:27 GMT From: "Al" <alistairdorenospamo.com> Subject: Re: The Saab Skink! aka Leaf-Tailed Gecko with Fluffy Pillow. 8-)
"JEWEL" <Xjewel_otsXnospammail.comX> wrote in message news:G0JNd.151300$K7.41729nospam-server.bigpond.net.au... > > "Craig's C900 Site" <c900nospam.apana.org.au> wrote in message > news:Pine.GSO.4.58.0502070846500.4345nospam.apana.org.au... >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I was lifting up a set of Saab wheel covers the other day which was >> stored >> on the tiled floor in our laundry near the clothes dryer, and the picture >> you can find at: >> >> http://www.nospam.net/gallery/craig.dewick/P1300012.html >> >> tells the story. It's a rare Southern Leaf Tailed Gecko (aka Phyllurus >> Platurus!), and it's living the high life with a nice well-protected >> 'home' inside the bottom two wheel covers in a stack of four, and because >> they're sitting next to the corner of the room where our clothes dryer >> sits, it's always warm and usually moist, and the fluff in the picture >> has >> come from many loads of clothes being put through the dryer! >> >> I now call it the Saab Skink (tm) which isn't quite accurate, but Saab >> Gecko doesn't really work. 8-) >> >> Given that we live directly on the edge of the Royal National Park in >> Waterfall (Sydney, Australia), this is quite a good find as in the 8 >> years >> we've been here I've never seen a leaf-tailed gecko here before, although >> we have had quite a few interesting visitors to the yard since the big >> bushfires of Christmas day 2001... >> >> Ok, back to our normal programming. 8-) >> >> Regards, >> >> Craig. >> > > > Sorry dude, not real rare in those parts........ you just have to look > harder! > > Good looking specimen though! > > Keep the cockroach and spider population up in that laundry and he wont > leave, > we have a wine cellar in a state that looks like something out of the > Adams > family > just to keep the little guys happy! (less than 10km north of you). > > Some of them get quite tame after a while, great to have around the > house!! > > He's ugly enough to be named Saab 96 Skink isn't he? But seriously, what great wildlife you get! Best I can do is house spiders, its cold here in Yorkshire! Al
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