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Mourning Gecko

Like most geckos these little guys feed on insects and flower nectar. They are said to be found in Japan, lucky lizards get to feed on cherry blossoms. If you ever get the chance to see this lizard is during the night. They sleep all day and party all night! Now these are some lizards I can hang with.

Reproduction is different when it comes to mourning geckos. The female does not need the male around to fertilize the eggs. Talk about being independent. Females engage in pseudocopulation (look for definition at the end), stimulating both to produce viable eggs. Mourning geckos stick their eggs on surfaces to make sure they are protected. Most clutches consist of two eggs. They are laid about two to three weeks apart from one another.

Pseudocopulation:
Describes the behavior similar to copulation that serve a reproductive function for one or both participants, but do not involve actual sexual union between individuals.

Reptile Corner

A friend of mine has brought a question to my attention:
      Well, my son found a frog or toad at the Delaware Canal. I'm not sure which it is. Not long after he came home with another, even bigger frog or toad. Again, I don't know which one it is. We put both in an aquarium and filled one side with water, the other with land. He feeds each of them about 5 bugs each day. Is it okay to keep them as pets? And how can you tell if they are frogs or toads, males or females?

My response to this could help you as well:

     Ok well first thing is first may I have pix? To tell whether or not a toad/frog is male or female is to stick your finger in it's rear end but since your finger could harm the animal I don't recommend doing so. Frogs/toads are excellent pets to start off with when you are a beginner. Frogs are a lot smoother than toads. Also frogs needs to soak their body in water where as a toad can deal with warm climate. If you do indeed have a toad the half and half tank should be transformed into a land tank with a spot for them to dampen themselves. How big are the toads? Are they as big as your palm?

Her answer: One is large the other small.

Don't feed them more than the length of their body in food.

*At the end of my answer I also suggested that my friend checked out this website for more info on how to determine the gender of her new friend: http://www.toadilytoads.com/male_female.html

 (If you were wondering her new friend is a toad.)

Blinding Beauty

Blind Snake

Blind Snakes are mostly found in Africa and Asia.

Moist leaves, logs, humus in wet forests, dry jungles, and even city gardens are a few places where blind snakes can be found laying about. They mostly like urban and agricultural areas underground in ant and termite nests. Larvae, eggs, and pupae of ants and termites are their favorite meals.

These snakes are often mistaken for earthworms. Simply because the head and tail look the same like an earthworm except the tip of the tail ends with a tiny pointed spur, and they do not have a narrowing neck. The eyes of a blind snake are covered with translucent scales (clear scales). You would probably have a hard time finding their eyes since they look like tiny little dots under the head scales. The translucent scales render these guys almost entirely blind. This causes them to have a difficult time forming images, but they are still capable of registering light intensity.

The adults are thin and small averaging between 2 to 6 inches long. That is a little longer than a regular sized pen! In my opinion they sort of remind me of baby leeches...(ugh thank goodness these little guys aren't anything like those slimy blood sucking creators). Coloration of adult blind snake varies from shiny silver-grey to charcoal-grey or purple. Juvenile blind snakes are colored just like the adults.

Most blind snakes lay eggs, but in a few species, the eggs may hatch inside the mother so that she gives birth to live baby snakes. The flowerpot snake may be parthenogenetic (PAR-thih-no-jeh-NEH-tik), which means that the females do not need males to fertilize their eggs in order to have babies. It is the only parthenogenetic snake, and one of the few parthenogenetic vertebrates in the entire animal kingdom. 

Vertebrates (VER-teh-brehts) are animals with backbones. Among blind snakes overall, small or especially thin species have fewer eggs — sometimes just one, raisin-sized egg. Larger species may have more than fifty eggs that are the size of large grapes. Eggs probably hatch in one to two months, but some hatch in just a week. Many of the blind snakes mate during only one season a year, usually in late spring, but others appear to mate all year long.

*Reproduction Facts Courtesy of*Blind Snakes: Typhlopidae - Behavior And Reproduction

*Photo Courtesy of:* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Malby