Excellent points Dr. Werner
On donation, Gregory Watkins Colwell at Yale takes frozen specimens.
Anyone in the NY Metro region can drop them with me or meet me at the
White Plains Expo.
Lyle
Lyle Puente
President
Global Gecko Association
http://www.gekkota.org
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On Jun 9, 2008, at 2:29 PM, yehudah werner wrote:
Hello,
The recent messages re geckos requiring euthanasia and this
being problematic on Hawaiian islands, stimulate 3 comments.
1, A gecko that drops off the ceiling and/or lands other than on
its four feet is probably sick to begin with.
2, Even geckos don't live forever. What does everybody do with
the dead pets? They should be donated (with maximum info on their
origin, age etc.) to some public museum collection.
3, To my understanding, on Hawaii, the colonizing day geckos are
semi-banned not for their endangering the local insects (this is
already done by the local geckos) but because they displace the local
geckos. This of course means that they displace Hemidactylus
frenatus, who since arrival in the 1940s has been displacing
Hemidactylus garnotii, who arrived much earlier. The moral difference
between the waves of invasion is that the early invasions were
unintentional (which is natural for commensal geckos), whereas the
latest is supected of having been intentional (artificial).
Hoping to have served, Yehudah
Yehudah L. Werner
Professor Emeritus of Zoology
Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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