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[Ruby]

What type of lizard is this? It looks way different than a tokay gecko, or any gecko for that matter.
I'm thinking monitor, maybe?

 

[Caleb C]

I think they call them Tuko, but google shows Tokays, i'm guessing they have big fat ugly ones there, or similar giant species?

 

[Ruby]

Its tail is so long!

 

[Caleb C]

Yeah, i'd be scared if there was one running around my house.

 

[Amanda1]

That doesn't look like a gecko to me. It's too skinny and the tail is too long. Plus, if that really was a tokay, those guys would be missing some toes or something. That lizard was way too docile and looked more terrestrial than arboreal. My guess would be some kind of monitor.

 

[Ruby]

That's what I was thinking!

 

[jenna]

It looks like they faked a tokay, they head looks weird and in another video it looks like it wants to rubb its head?? Strange if I do say

 

[GiggleSheep]

When they export the geckos, they are paid for the weight of the geckos, not by how many they have. That being said, many exporters will do one of two things. They will either paint a large lizard to look like a tokay, or they will inject real tokays with silicone to make them much, much fatter. It goes without saying that neither method is pleasant for the animals involved, and it just demonstrates another reason why people shouldn't buy WC animals. This video demonstrates the first method, with that animal most definitely being a monitor.

 

[Ruby]

That's awful. What humans will do for money...

 

[jenna]

That's awful. What humans will do for money...

I agree people are soo greedy!

 

[Star1]

When they export the geckos, they are paid for the weight of the geckos, not by how many they have. That being said, many exporters will do one of two things. They will either paint a large lizard to look like a tokay, or they will inject real tokays with silicone to make them much, much fatter. It goes without saying that neither method is pleasant for the animals involved, and it just demonstrates another reason why people shouldn't buy WC animals. This video demonstrates the first method, with that animal most definitely being a monitor.

That is horrible!!! I never knew that. Those poor animals