Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Geeeeko for Philomel

Phi -

We were talking (making funny sounds?) about geckos a few months back. I found a picture I took of one in Bali several years back. About 30-40 cm long....

Pkkarrrrr, pkkarrrrr, pkkarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

;)

Aaaaw wow, what a great pic - he's definitely got his eye on that juicy (crunchy?) meal!!
I can't better that sound effect either LOL :)

Was very pleased to see you've put a comprehensive entry for your namesake in the PDB ;)

Beautiful

Phi -
It's amazing how you never see any cockroaches in Balinese losmen (rental cottages). "Crunch" pretty much sums it up, I guess! ;)

Here's one more view:

What a handsome chap (or chapess)
Love the white spots

Do you mean that the geckos are the reason for the lack of cockroaches in the losmen?
Definitely fellas to encourage then!

"Do you mean that the geckos are the reason for the lack of cockroaches in the losmen? "

Well phi, I'm sorry, but I have no empirical evidence other than a lot of Gecko poop on the veranda every morning....

;)

LOLOL
Wonder if there's a diagnostic trick to identifying gecko poop like there is for bat excrement......
.....and I'm sure you could prove the situation if you pop the poop under a microscope

Oh dear, think I've been into wildlife for far too long :(

Dunno, yes, and yes...

Another good reason (in retrospect) for me not becoming a Herpetologist...

Yes, poking around in mammal poo is bad enough
;)

Mammals???

I though you worked with bats. They're birds, aren't they??

(Sorry - actually that's a joke aimed at Baa, who thinks I'm a complete idiot for mistaking Slow Worms for....)

;)

LOLOL
Bats and these little chaps.......

........you didn't call a slowworm a SNAKE did you Uuuuuuh!
So that's more likely the reason you're not a herpetologist lol.

That last little critter was a teenager. Here's a growed up rather sleepy one....

Well...uh....umm.......yeah. :(

Now you think I'm a complete idjit too, eh? (sigh) My reputation with the Albion crowd is shot, isn't it?...

(May as well put my whole leg in my mouth) So what's that cute little critter, a baby lemur?

;)

It's a dormouse, as asleep in the teapot at the Mad Hatter's teaparty in Alice in Wonderland!
Muscardinus avellanarius to be exact, the hazel dormouse.
Don't you just love it's furry tail?
Has to be at least 12 on the cute scale 1-10??

Phi -

The only cure for ignorance is to ask questions and listen up, so:

Is your dormouse actually a mouse, or does his family come closer to the chipmunks?

Been a while replying cos this is a bit complicated.

Although dormice are rodents the same as mice and chipmunks they are a separate family.

They are actually nearer to mice than chipmunks, which come under squirrel like rodents, but the section including all the mouse like rodents is divided into:

1 Rats and mice - Family Muridae (1303 spp, 279 genera)
has 6 subfamilies:
New World rats and mice
Old World rats and mice
Voles and Lemmings
Other Old World rats and mice
Hamsters
Gerbils

2 Dormice - Family Myoxidae (26spp, 8 genera)

3 Jumping mice birch mice and Jerboa (50 spp, 15 genera)

4 Pocket gophers (39spp, 5 genera)

5 Pocket mice and kangaroo rats (59spp 5 genera)

HTH LOLOL ;)

Well - since I'm a New World Rat, guess that puts me in the Cricetidae...

(And once upon a time I was married into the Order Insectivora, Family Soricidae...)

;)

Thanks for the info, and your wonderful pics of the little Myoxies!

LOL You're well out of that then ;)
Shakespeare knew all about the problem...

Whoops, was in a hurry when i wrote that!!!

This message was edited Tuesday, Mar 18th 8:00 AM

Hmm... let's stick to Carroll.... ;)

Yes, lets.
Thanks for the pic
This dormouse looks more like Muridae to me lol
Muscardinus spp tend to have a rounder look and slightly different set to the ears. But hey....

This one wouldn't fit in the teapot either!

Oh yeah???

Ok Phi - ID this one then...

I still maintain that that dormouse is never going to squidge into that teapot......

.........and Mus musculus I believe - the eyes and ears are not large enough to be Apodemus sylvaticus or A flavicollis

;)

I bow to your erudition.

So she began: "O Mus musculus, do you now the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mus musculus!" (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a Mus musculus: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, " A Mus musculus - of a Mus musculus- to a Mus musculus - a Mus musculus- O Mus musculus!" The Mus musculus looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to wink with one of its little eyes, but said nothing.

Shouldn't the Mus musculi be declined in that quote?

Can't remember how that would go though :(

(groan)

You.... er, British people, with your Latin...

Time to call in Baa!

Jealously,
;)

.........and there was I thinking you were going to decline it, or at least turn it down ;)