What do you call a Lizard that walks on walls?
We call these Lizards locally as "Butiki", at least in my local language that is because we have many dialects here in my country which is an archipelago or group of islands, heck even the village after our village has their own unique accent which is deeper than the accent of my Mother's home province south of my province.
Anyway, these house lizards are commonly seen here in the houses, they are almost everywhere. They are a good part of the environment because they eat insects like Mosquitoes especially when Termites in their mounds would seasonally break-out with wings, then these house lizards would feast on them.
The house lizards by the way is an opportunistic creatures because if your food is left uncovered, the will get on it and help themselves. But once they see outside movement like you turn on the lights or enter the room, they will notice you and run away. They are shy creatures and is afraid of bigger creatures like people. They do not bite and even if they do, the will not cause a danger because they are small.
If you try to get a hold of them they will detach their tails which would jerk around as if it another creature, it is a nature's mechanism for them to take away the attention of the attacker so that they can scoot away in a safe place if the attention of the predator or attacker goes to the detached wiggling tail. Afterwards this lizards will grow back their tails.
Not all house lizards like this one has the same dark color as many has a lighter color. Maybe this one's mother is just around dirty walls so it begets dark-colored offspring. But even though they have light colors, you can still notice them although most of the time they are just ignored and left to stay and do their own things because they cannot be eliminated and it is pointless to do so because it is believed to be not good to kill them as it would result in bad luck.
I was once fascinated by them when I was younger because these lizards would sometimes create a "Tsk-tsk-tsk" sound and you could not determine where that peculiar sound was coming from except when they are doing it, they are tapping their tails on the walls or ceilings. Its one of their ways of interacting to other house lizard and I think it is equivalent of either courting another house lizard or a territorial disputes if not a mating call or even a warning to other house lizard entering their turf.
Now they call a Lizard that walks "Runs" on water as "Jesus Lizard", now what do you call that walks on ceilings and walls?
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We call it wall gecko
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It's nice to know, but we have a specific name for it locally while in the other-hand the other bigger lizard which can be found outside we call "Tuko" which is a Gecko and make the same sound as its name.😀👍
The bigger one outside we call them agama lizard, I live in west Africa and you will commonly see this types of lizards around houses, for the wall gecko it can be poisonous if it enters your food or soups and their poos are harmful also, but they have their own importance in the house because they get rid of insects on the walls, and they are always at the side of the house that has bright lights, sometimes you can’t completely eradicate them because they tend to deliver new offsprings. We just find a way to be careful with them most times but they seem very harmless.
It is a hagedis a reptile. They are often confused with the salamander an amphibian.
We have 4 species one without legs whichooks like a snake. snakes evolved from the lizards (hagedissen) so family.
This is the muurhagedis (wall lizard). I don't see them often and if more outside than inside. Can be they are on the attic. They better eat a bit faster especially in Spring and during the Summer.
It sounds as if the animals show up for a photoshoot 😁
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I have at least two of these house lizards in my room and sometimes I would see one catching a bug, they control the bug population in my room and maybe without them some spiders will soon live there around the ceilings.
Other lizards are in the wild like I always see many years ago in the dried-up irrigation canal of the former rice fields where they would show-up and then hide fast when they see people coming or going near where they are, they are bigger and they look slimy with greenish tone color of skin or scales. "Timbubuli" or "Bubuli" is what they are locally called but they are ignored.👇
The other one was the monitor Lizard, if you hunt them in the wild by trapping you can catch them that way but they are rarely seen and if they are seen they are hunted because they are eaten here and made into a "Beer dish" by drunkards. 😋👌
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