> From: Jon & Stacy Boone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:15:12 -0500
>
> Adult G. petricolus: males approx. 8-9 inches; females approx. 7-7.5
> inches. This must surely rank as the most fecund member of the genus, in
> my experience, with females capable of blowing an enormous number of
> clutches. In a situation where a male is in with 3 females, the eggs pile
> up quickly as they take around 100 days to hatch (each female depositing at
> 3 week intervals, X 5 depositions - within a 100 day period, X 3 females =
> 30 eggs and your just getting ready for your first hatchlings).
Though everybody is probably tired of it by now, I'm interested in
social behaviour and parental care in geckos. How do these guys
compare to other Gekko spp? Guard their eggs and young, or eat them?
Drive away subadults or form family groups of adults of both sexes?
Jon, since you probably have experience with more Gekko spp than anyone
else on the list, can you summarize what you've seen? What I've
gathered so far is that tokays guard eggs and young but drive away
subadults, G.smithii form stable family groups, G.ulikovskii eats its
hatchlings, and I dunno about G.grossmanni and G.vittatus.
If you could rate these species on how loud they are, I'd appreciate it
too. Someday I'd like to have a colony of some Gekko sp, but the
spouse is a light sleeper, so I have to avoid the ones that shout GECK
in the night!
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