Gecko is the common name for the designation big lizard. There are many types of geckos, but the term is narrowly gecko usual for members of the genus Gekko paired, Gekkonidae tribe. While the gecko in layman's language generally refers to a house gecko (Gekko gecko), who coined the widely spread.
Gekko Marga spread in South Asia and Southeast Asia, north to Korea and Japan, to timurmelintasi Islands archipelago and the Philippines to the Solomons and Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific. There are many types of geckos, such as house geckos. Gecko is a kind of reptile into the class of big lizard, tribal Gekkonidae. Gecko has a scientific name Gekko gecko (Linnaeus, 1758). Lizard is large, big-headed. The total length reaches 340 mm, nearly half of its tail.
Dorsal (back side) rough, with many large nodule. Bluish gray to brownish in color, with flecks of red brick to orange. Ventral (abdomen, lower body side) blue-gray or yellowish vaginal discharge. The tail is rounded, with six rows of dots, striped. The radius of the front and rear legs are equipped with suction pads called scansor, located on the underside of the finger. Pointless to cling to slippery surfaces. Thus, from the upper side of the fingers gecko appear to widen. Geckos are often found in trees in the yard and in homes, especially in rural and forest edges. Gecko prey on various insects, other smaller lizards, small rodents and birds may be too small. Like the other lizards, geckos actively hunt mainly at night. Sometimes geckos also fell to the ground to catch prey. In the afternoon, gecko hiding in holes in wood, stone pit, or in between the roof of the house.
Gecko glue their eggs, which usually amounted to a pair and mutual berlekatan, in the crevices of tree holes, rock cracks or if at home, behind cupboards or under the roof. Place eggs are often also used by some geckos together. The eggs hatch after two months more. These animals are widespread from eastern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, lewatMyanmar, TiongkokThailand, the Malay Peninsula and surrounding islands, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, Lombok, Flores, Timor, Aru and the Philippine Islands (Manthey & Grossmann, 1997 : 232). south and east, be careful, house geckos often bite when captured. When held, the gecko will automatically opened its mouth, ready to bite its captor. Its bite is very strong, the muscles of his jaw as if locked, so the argument that the bite of the gecko will not be able to escape.
There is an easy way to trick the gecko so as not to get bitten when holding it. Put something rather soft in their gaping mouths, like a twig or a piece of patchwork fabric folded, which is not easily broken. Gecko will bite with a vengeance, so that the catcher is safe to observe, inspect and measure the animal. Gecko will not let go of the stuff as long as he still held one, but when geckos were released, he will soon be releasing the bitten goods and ran away.
However, the current land geckos have become very good business. In Malaysia there is a giant gecko, weighing 64 pounds were found in Nunukan-Malaysia border in Kalakbakan. And eventually sold 64 million Malaysian ringgit, equivalent to Rp 179.2 billion rupiah.
