S&M Morelia
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Well I recently got back from my Wedding & Honeymoon in the Cook Islands and snapped this picture in our beachfront hut of one of the "local" geckos.
This fella is known as Tuāvaru to the locals or commonly Oceanic Gecko (Gehyra oceanic)
They are an interesting little gecko that growls when interacting with out geckos or when scared.
Another intersting thing is that they don't just drop tails in attempt to aviod predators but they also can shed random patches of skin to aviod capture (as you can see on this one it has done it before)
They aren't native to the Cook Islands (alot of their reptiles aren't) but are from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.
thought to have come over to the Cooks when Polynesian canoes/boats arrived thousands of years ago.
Anyways, there's only the 1 picture but thought I'd share anyways
This fella is known as Tuāvaru to the locals or commonly Oceanic Gecko (Gehyra oceanic)
They are an interesting little gecko that growls when interacting with out geckos or when scared.
Another intersting thing is that they don't just drop tails in attempt to aviod predators but they also can shed random patches of skin to aviod capture (as you can see on this one it has done it before)
They aren't native to the Cook Islands (alot of their reptiles aren't) but are from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.
thought to have come over to the Cooks when Polynesian canoes/boats arrived thousands of years ago.
Anyways, there's only the 1 picture but thought I'd share anyways
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