Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Madagascar Giant Day Gecko

Madagascar Giant Day Gecko

04 Feb 2009 156
Another photo shot through glass at the Calgary Zoo - not as sharp an image as I would have liked. These Geckos are such brilliant colours and I love the orange patterns on them. The glass of the aquarium is filthy - looks worse than I had thought : (. LOL, the more times I look at this image, it seems blurrier than the previous time - sorry!

Reflected brilliance

13 Apr 2008 145
I took plenty of photos of this brilliantly coloured Madagascar Giant Day Gecko when I spent a few hours at the Zoo, but ended up with only two or three photos worth keeping. This is perhaps the best one. "The Madagascar Giant Day Gecko (Phelsuma madagascariensis grandis Gray, 1870) is a diurnal arboreal subspecies of the Madagascar day geckos (Phelsuma madagascariensis ssp.). It is found in areas of tropical and subtropical forest in northern Madagascar. The Madagascar giant day gecko feeds on various invertebrates and very small vertebrates and nectars. This lizard is among the largest of all living gecko species. It typically reaches a total length of about 28 cm, though larger specimens have been found." From Wikipedia.