Interesting facts about Barking Gecko by weird square
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Date: 13/01/2018

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Barking Gecko Theatre Company is a Western Australian professional theatre company for young audiences.
Established in Perth in 1991,[1] each year the company produces at least 3 new works, presents more than 500 performances to more than 70,000 young people.[citation needed]
Barking Gecko is a not-for-profit company governed by a Board of Directors. Receiving federal and state government arts funding, as well as corporate sponsorship and ticket revenue, the company has an annual turnover of more than $1.2 million and employs more than 60 primarily Western Australian artists each year. It operates in a fully professional capacity, under the Certified Performers Agreement with the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Equity), which means that its actors and production team are paid award rates (as opposed to community/volunteer theatre).
Typical performances take place in school classrooms and halls, in site specific non-theatre venues and outdoor locations, as well as traditional theatre venues.
Primarily servicing the Perth metropolitan region, the company covers the entire state of Western Australia, and frequently tours to all other Australian states and capital cities. Barking Gecko has toured throughout Canada and the United States, and to Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Mexico.
The scientific name for the Thick-tailed gecko is Underwoodisaurus milii, and they are also referred to barking geckos. They are members of the Gekkonidae-- or Gecko family. Thick-tailed geckos are communal lizards native to Southern Australia. They are terrestrial geckos, or ground dwelling, from varied areas from wet coastal areas, leaf-covered forests, dry woodlands, to arid scrubland consisting of hard-pack sandy soil. They live in sheltered crevices in rocks or under loose bark at bases of trees. Thick-tailed geckos are "nocturnal," hunting for food at nigThick-tailed geckos are medium-sized lizards with varying body color from dark to light brown pigment, to gold and orange, with aberrant patterns of white to yellow raised tubercles, and a dense band of these spots around the neck. The tail is thick and broad tapering to a point. Juveniles are slow growers, and can take up to six months to accurately sex, and usually reach adult size in 18 months.  The average size of a full-grown adult is up to 4-5” snout to tail tip, and 20-25 grams in weight.ht, and are generally less active during the day.
As a general rule, allow a minimum 12 x 12 inches of surface area per adult thick-tailed gecko. These geckos like to live in group colonies and hide in cave-like dwellings kept on the warm side of their enclosure (see Heating below). Adult males should not be housed together in the same vivarium or they may fight and injure each other. A single male can be kept with several females, and several females can share the same enclosure. Do NOT house adult thick-tailed geckos with babies or any other reptile species. Animal planet | Discovery | Netflix | Documentary | Animal World
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