ศาลาชุมนุม

[Rick Bradford]

For anyone interested in their gecko names, these are two related but different animals which are ubiquitous in rural houses.

จิ้งจก is the little one (Hemidactylus platyurus, 5-10cm) that scoots about all day.

ตุ๊กแก is a large reptile which only appears at night and is a totally different proposition, Gekko gecko with a maximum length of 40cm, not appearing to be afraid of anything, and which will apparently bite -- though this is more likely to happen if they are kept as pets and have no opportunity to flee.

It resembles a wall-climbing baby crocodile....

[gondo]

ahhh, I have wondered about this for a while. Whenever I tell people that there was a foot long gecko on the back of my house noone believes me. I have never seen anything like it since.

Thanks

[Pirin]

Believe it or not, a cat and ตุ๊กแก might never allow จิ้งจก to live at you place.



ตุ๊กแกและจิ้งจก
http://nstkm.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post_18.html

[buckjoy]

If you want to buy velcro, you'll ask for ตีนตุ๊กแก

[tod-daniels]

I just bought some Velcro and indeed it is “feet of a Tokay” เทป. Thankfully I had a piece of it with me or I’d possibly still be stuck at the hardware store miming out what I wanted. Just an FYI, double sided tape here is called เทปสองหน้า or "two faced tape".

Here’s a cute Thai commercial which shows what จิ้งจก’s look like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRc-Sr7Qh1c

I find their small eggs behind the p/c's speakers on my desk every so often, although I’m always too late in actually seeing the babies . All I find are the broken shells after they’ve hatched.