The Gecko

I know Nadine will like this post. So, yesterday I'm coming out of my room and this shape darts out from beneath my feet. It's a lizard! A gecko to be precise. It looks spotted but I can't tell what kind it is (not that I know any kinds of geckos). I corner it but then it shows me one of its great adaptations. I starts climbing up the wall. It touches ground behind me and runs underneath the door. Then it runs up the door frame and clings to the top where I can't reach. Then he does that gecko thing where he licks his eye. So I call to my dad to help and he is being a wuss. He's afraid to touch it. He does chase it down though. Now to get away the gecko is jumping like a foot through the air. I felt bad for him but we needed to get him outside. Then he jumps on the wall. From there I try to grab him so he jumps at my dad's face. In response my dad screams like a nancy. To be fair, the gecko was fearsome, with its scary gecko teeth all a-gnash. Then my dad went out. I chased it for a little bit. The gecko jumped on my arm. As it jumped off I try to grab the gecko but only manage to grab his tail. This is where it shows me another of its great adaptations. Its tail comes off! Then I scream like a nancy (no offense to any Nancys reading this). In the wild if a bird grabs it by the tail a gecko uses this skill to escape. Oh, and the best part, the tail is still moving. So eventually I catch it in a glass and let it go.

Guess what. Do any of you know the story of Ricki Tiki Tavi? Has anyone seen the drawn or cartoon version of him? That's not what a mongoose looks like. Even the slighter brown mongooses are bigger than that. How do I know this you ask. Well, I happened upon (this is how people talk here, and I'm starting to pick it up, ugg) an indian grey mongoose. In the wild. It was soooo cool.

Ooh look, a chipmunk is eating the grape bait I put out. Gotta go.