Other books claim that the tiny hairs on the ends of geckos feet adhere to microscopic rough spots on the surface they re sticking to. But don t believe everything your read. In fact, geckos stick to the ceiling by atomic forces. Geckos are a type of lizard, and there are about 750 different species of them. They can survive anywhere from your house to jungles and deserts.
Geckos have the most highly developed hearing of any of the lizards.
They re the only lizard that makes any kind of noise beside a hiss . For a century, people have been trying to work out how geckos really do stick to something as smooth as glass. But it took a big team effort led by Robert Full from the Department of Biology at the University of California at Berkeley to figure it out. It took many different disciplines to understand something as simple as how a gecko sticks to a smooth surface. Suction has nothing to do with the gecko s legendary stickiness, because the feet will stick in a vacuum.