Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:18:46 GMT From: "JEWEL" <Xjewel_otsXnospammail.comX> Subject: Re: The Saab Skink! aka Leaf-Tailed Gecko with Fluffy Pillow. 8-)
"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!!
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