GIANT Gecko!!

[pinky]

Hi, can anyone give me some advice. We have an enormous gecko 'type' creature that has decided to spend its evenings on the back of our house. Im not joking it is about 12 inches long and is identical to a gecko in every way except that it has orange spots.
Little bit worried, dont mind the small ones but this one is huge!! Does anyone know what it is and is it poisonous, nasty etc... Also can it do any damage to the house??
If its harmless it can stay.. if not its gonna get humanely evicted to the land at the back!!
Many thanks.

[BaaBaa.]

It's a Tokay, beware, they are evil.

[hhfarang]

That sounds like a Tokay (they make a noise like that when calling for a mate). Thai women don't like them for some reason and if you mess with them they will bite and hang on. Just let them be and they eat their weight in insects every day!

[BaaBaa.]

There is thread here as well.

[Randy Cornhole]

Heres one my girlfriends dad caught inside our hut last year. I wasn't that bothered by it but the gf didn't want it around. That should tell you something as she'd know...

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[darwinian]

They are not venomous.

[caller]

And my wifes family have almost befriended theirs! As said above, will more than eat its fill each night - if only there was a volume control!

[kendo]

My mrs said they will stick to you with there feet and this does cause alarm but not dangerous, i love to listen to them but i have only seen them at dusk and at night.

Kendo.

[steve w]

had a resident one in a bungalow on ko lanta once,kept the big mossies down and did not make as much noise as all the little orange gits!

[sandman67]

we've got a couple that live in our roof....I love em

they always seem to do the To Kai Kai Kai thing when its going to rain.....so its a get the washing in alarm.

Anyway.....they look way cool hanging upside down off the wall.....my mates back home are fascinated by them when I send piccys

love the Tokai on a lead.....walking one would be a pain though....

[pinky]

Thanks everyone.. you are a mine of information.
Think he can stay for now.. although i still think he looks really scarey!! And certainly wont be going anywhere near those jaws!!

[migrant]

My wife said her Grandparents would tell her they were going to attack her and eat her liver

[Vital Spark]

I'm glad you've decided to let him stay Pinky.

They're really quite beautiful and totally harmless creatures, regardless of what some people think. Yeh, of course they have sticky feet - how else would they climb up the walls? If you frighten the poor things, and believe you me they're more frightened of us than we are of them, then they'll obviously try and protect themselves. We have loads of them around our new house and they do a pretty good job of eating anything that flies near them.

If they do the tookay noise seven times it's good luck!

We also have quite a lot of water (canals and ponds) around, so we have another possibly scary, but again harmless, visitor. The monitor lizard. I saw one today about 6ft long crossing the road. It was nice to see that all the motorbikes and cars stopped to let it cross. I don't know whether it was out of respect for the creature or some old wives tale of 10 yrs bad luck if you run over its tail/win the lottery if you swerve round it - whatever, it didn't get squashed...

VS

[ozuncle]

We had one in the bedroom last year.

How does one go about taking them outside. Surely no one would pick them up.

Luckily we were going out that night so we left the window open (upstairs) and an outside light on and he went for a walk.

[Aussie Mark]

Why eat crickets and grubs when you could eat one of those Surely Oz Uncle you could cook him up into a treat

yours in dinners served