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DHAKA – In the hopes of becoming overnight millionaires, five wildlife traffickers tried to sell a tokay gecko (Gekko gecko), locally known as takkhak, in Bangladesh’s border district of ...

Netizens in Thailand are baffled by a clip posted by a Thai TikToker of three foreign children playing with a tokay gecko, an aggressive lizard feared most by Thais. Tokay geckos are not venomous but ...

Widespread misconceptions about the medicinal benefits of tokay geckos are leading to these common nocturnal lizards being hunted across Bangladesh. Wildlife traffickers set an exorbitant price on ...

Tokay geckos are fascinating reptiles with their striking appearance and loud vocalizations. While they may be more challenging to tame than other reptile pets, with patience and proper handling ...

A wild tokay gecko sparked panic when it raided a family's dining table. CCTV footage shows a teenager putting the lizard into a plastic box after catching it with a dustpan in Phrae, Thailand ...

Thousands of tokay geckos (Gekko gecko), native to South and Southeast Asia, are sold each year in Hong Kong’s traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) pharmacies. Recent studies have raised questions ...

Tokay geckos (Gekko gecko) are a nocturnal, carnivorous type of arboreal gecko widespread throughout southeast Asia and invasive an other parts of the world, including Florida (USA), Martinique, and ...

Geckos can use their tongue to differentiate their own odor from that of other members of their species, as researchers from the University of Bern have shown in a new experimental study. The findings ...

The tokay gecko is one of the largest gecko species found in India and the second-largest globally. It is estimated that of about 6,000 species of lizards worldwide, 231 are found in India.