Nothing crawled upon it but a few beetles and small web-footed geckos.

The cries of the geckos mingled with the sound of the surf.

He said Aotearoa's rare, native geckos were popular pets in Europe and Asia.

Well, not actual geckos, but a grabber inspired by their remarkable, gravity-snubbing feet.

I also learnt how to handle monitor lizards, catch geckos and eat earthworms.

The burst of laughter sent the pale geckos scuttling up the wall in alarm.

It houses animals such as alligators, pythons, cobras, geckos, tarantulas and poison dart frogs.

Unlike skinks, geckos cannot blink and must lick their eyes to keep them moist.

Dr Barton said while reptiles commonly carried salmonella, geckos were also host to other parasites.

What geckos have on their toes is essentially a ton of very, very fine hairs.

Here, geckos and skinks dart through the foliage, and pitcher plants dangle among moss-covered palms.

He is not one of those window-sticking stretchy geckos.

Also the hunt for skinks and geckos so rare, they have only fleetingly been spotted.

A large number of animals carry salmonella in their gut -including snakes, frogs and geckos.

And geckos are able to 'drop' their tails.

During the day most of the geckos lived under the loose plaster on the garden wall.