Ok... This lil thing is only a few inches long and was caught roaming in a house... Can anyone tell what kinda lizard it is?
where is the house? in chicago, where you live? i initially thought it was some sort of house gecko, but i thought they were primarily southern creatures (chicago winters are very harsh, as you know). hopefully others can help you out more, but we'll have to know where (country, state, city) he was found.
No... I didnt catch... Its down in Miami FL area... Thought it was a Gecko but tryin to get specifics and I figured this would be the best place...
miami, huh? yeah that sounds like some kind of gecko. here's some house geckos typically found in florida: http://www.southalley.com/lizard_intro.html here's a page with gecko pics - some were found in florida: http://www.ribbitphotography.com/lizards/geckos.html from the pics i've found, it's probably a house gecko (House Gecko Pic) or a mediterranean gecko (Mediterranean Gecko Pic). also, keep in mind that he may not look exactly like pictures you see (individuals of species can be very diverse). also, it may not be a full grown individual and the young of many species look *very* different from the adults.
They actually look the same from hatched to adult. My girlfriend found a nest inside her classroom once and took them home put them in moss in a jar so they could hatch and sure enough now she has a bunch of house geckos running around the outsinde (and inside) of her house lol.
Even up north you can find house geckos & anoles... a lot of plants are carried in bulk from the southern states to the north, and even as far as canada. At the right times of year, the pots of these plants & trees can be packed with anole & gecko eggs that actually manage to survive the long drive, and hatch out in the greenhouses up there. But yeah, that just looks like a regular ol' house gecko to me
That's how many of my Canadian friends got into reptiles. They bought a plant at a local store, brought it home and out of the soil pops a baby anole
oh i would FREAK OUT!! that is the only way i would ever take a herp out of the wild - if it was transported up here during the summer and i knew it couldn't survive the winter outside. what a wonderful surprise that would be!
LOL yes, that's how Hobotramp got involved in reptiles, she lives in Canada and acquired some anoles that were in houseplants that were shipped from Florida. (i think they had already hatched) Her gallery pictures of them are here http://www.reptilerooms.com/modules.php?se...=view_album.php
i'd seen the pics of her little guys, but never knew that! being a biology major, i thought the names cathode and anode were especially cute!! they're all adorable . . .
That would be so cool....to just find them in a house plant!!! Maybe I should start looking for plants from Florida!!! We don't have many lizards native to Canada.
Yeah.... there was a tree frog shipped here in some lettuce at a friends diner, but never heard of lizards in plants. Janice, yeah, tell me about it, there are NO lizards native to Newfoundland. In fact, prior to 1860 or so, there were no amphibians in Newfoundland, due to the fact that we are an island, and amphibians don't do too well in salt water (which is how they would have got here, if they could tolerate the salt water). We can boast 5 amphibian species on the island, all of them introduced: the green frog, the leopard frog, the striped chorus frog, the wood frog, and our ever-popular American toad. They were introduced by humans between 1860 and 1960.
My mom works at a grocery store and they are always gettin tree frogs in with their produce shipments...
