In one of his books about his childhood in Corfu, Gerald Durrell talks
about a large male Mediterranean gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) which
lived under a stone in a flower bed under his window, and every night
climbed through the window to the ceiling of his second story bedroom
to catch bugs in the lamplight. The gecko fiercely defended the ceiling
from competitors, and big gecko fights were common. Durrell said that
the intruding geckos usually dropped their tails when they fled, and
the resident gecko ate them. Although he was clearly the least squeamish
kid imaginable, he said he found this behaviour rather disgusting.
Once after the kind of shouting match that happens when two people are
really irritable at the same time, my husband remarked that if we were
geckos, we would have both dropped our tails.
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