What is a Gecko?

Answer 1

A reptile, like a salamander, found in greece, has sucker pads on feet to climb up walls.

Answer 2

A gecko is a type of lizard. There are a few types of gecko that are found all over the world. The most famous is indigenous to China called the barking gecko. This lizard actually barks like a dog when riled up. A gecko is also the trademark of Geico Insurance; the little guy with the Australian accent that we all get a kick out of.

Answer 3

Geckos are small to moderately large lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae which are found in warm climates throughout the world. Geckos are unique among lizards in their vocalizations, making chirping sounds in social interactions with other geckos. Geckos are unusual in other respects as well. Most geckos have no eyelids and instead have a transparent membrane which they lick to clean. A few species have the ability to shoot an irritating liquid out of the end of their tails. Many species have specialized toe pads that enable them to climb smooth vertical surfaces and even cross indoor ceilings with ease. These antics are well-known to people who live in warm regions of the world where several species of geckos make their home inside human habitations. These species (for example the house gecko) become part of the indoor menagerie and are seldom really discouraged because they feed on insect pests.

Answer 4

Geckos are lizards that eat insects. When we lived in Okinawa, roaches were a serious problem in our apartment building, so we always wanted to catch a gecko so as to have a resident pest controller. Unfortunately, geckos were much too fast for us to catch, so we had to devise other methods to discourage the roaches.

Answer 5

A gecko is a type of fish, that hibernates in summer on land usually in the skull cavity of a cow that it has decapitated with it's blade like backfin. It with live in the head for some time, taking short breaks to guard and feed on the remaining carcass and other passerbys that come looking for nourishment. I don't know what it looks like.

Answer 6

Geckos are small to moderately large lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae ... This gecko may eat leafcutter ants.

Answer 7

Geckos are small to moderately large lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae which are found in warm climates throughout the world. Geckos are unique among lizards in their vocalizations, making chirping sounds in social interactions with other geckos. Geckos are unusual in other respects as well. Most geckos have no eyelids and instead have a transparent membrane which they lick to clean. A few species have the ability to shoot an irritating liquid out of the end of their tails. Many species have specialized toe pads that enable them to climb smooth vertical surfaces and even cross indoor ceilings with ease. These antics are well-known to people who live in warm regions of the world where several species of geckos make their home inside human habitations. These species (for example the house gecko) become part of the indoor menagerie and are seldom really discouraged because they feed on insect pests.

Most geckos are tan to dark grey, subtly patterned, and somewhat rubbery looking, while others can be brightly colored. Some species can change color to blend in with their surroundings or with temperature differences.

Some species are parthenogenic, the females capable of reproducing without copulating with a male. This improves the geckos' ability to spread to new islands.

The toes of the gecko have attracted a lot of attention, as they adhere to a wide variety of surfaces, without the use of liquids or surface tension. Recent studies of the spatula tipped setae on gecko footpads demonstrates that the attractive forces that hold geckos to surfaces are van der Waals interactions between the finely divided setae (almost 500,000 Setae on each foot, and each of these tipped with between 100 and 1,000 spatulae) and the surfaces themselves.[1] These kinds of interactions involve no fluids; in theory, a boot made of synthetic setae would adhere as easily to the surface of the International Space Station as it would to a living room wall. Geckos' toes are extremely double jointed, allowing them to overcome the van der Waals force by peeling their toes off surfaces from the tips inward. In essence, this peeling action alters the angle of incidence between millions of individual setae and the surface, reducing the van der Waals force. Amazingly, Geckos' toes operate well below their full attractive capabilities for most of the time. This is because there is a huge margin for error depending upon the roughness of the surface, and therefore the number of spatulae in contact with that surface. If a gecko had every one of its spatulae in contact with a surface, it would be capable of holding aloft a 120

Answer 8

The rendering engine upon which all of the Mozilla applications rely.
gemal.dk/blog/2005/01/24/mozilla_terms_explained/

Also known as NGLayout, Gecko refers to the core of Mozilla and Netscape, and is the part responsible for displaying webpages. Hence it is often referred to as the "display engine" or "rendering engine" for Mozilla and Netscape. As you may have heard recently, AOL has incorporated Gecko into a new test version of AOL 7.0, replacing Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) as the display engine. The "official"/ current version of AOL stills uses MSIE, however. A recent News. ...
www.vorstrasse91.com/moztips/mozillajargon.html

any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Geckos are small to moderately large lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae and found in warm climates throughout the world. Geckos are unique among lizards in their vocalizations, making chirping sounds in social interactions with other geckos. Geckos are unusual in other respects as well. Many species have specialized toe pads that enable them to climb smooth vertical surfaces and even cross indoor ceilings with ease. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko

Gecko is the open source web browser layout engine used in Mozilla, later Netscape releases and several other products. Written in C++, Gecko is designed to support open Internet standards. Originally created by Netscape Communications Corporation, its development is now overseen by the Mozilla Foundation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(layout_engine)

Answer 9

Gecko is a small tropical lizard: a small tropical or subtropical nocturnal insect-eating lizard with hooked ridges on the pads of its feet that permit it to climb smooth vertical surfaces.
Family: Gekkonidae
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Answer 10

gecko, also spelled GEKKO, any lizard of the harmless but noisy family Gekkonidae, which contains about 80 genera and about 750 species.
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=342895

Answer 11

It's an annoying greenish brown lizard that climbs up your living room walls and ceilings if you live in the Middle East. We used to have them climbing up our kitchen walls in Abu Dhabi. My auntie used to be terrified of them when she lived in Egypt but they're harmless.