Talk:Gecko

message: The first paragraph states multiple facts but has no citation, where is the tab for the first citation?
Lots of citation needed tags in the paragraph about the sounds they make. Dayofrickoning (talk) 19:54, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beginning of article citations

message: Does anyone know how geckos make their noise and what is its meaning?
--58.9.82.77 (talk) 06:09, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gecko Sound Source? 

message: Is "Pasar Tokek" the same as Gekko gecko?
Cicak is the Indonesian word for Gekko.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.69.100.210 (talk) 08:45, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation request 

message: Near the end of the first section: "If a gecko had every one of its spatulae in contact with a surface, it would be capable of holding aloft a 120Kg man.", with a link to the Spatula article. 24.21.149.53 11:59, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spatula? 

message: Geico does not belong in the Gecko article, as the relation is not encylopedic.  Someone made the analogy to Micky Mouse; Micky Mouse is much more famous than Geico. It's also part of a single sentence as part of larger section on mice in popular culture in general, in a longer article.  Please comment on the talk page before restoring Geico.
Whoever said the Geico Gecko talks with a South African Accent is also wrong - it's English.  I beilieve the actor in question is Jake Wood and he's British.
A262 15:36, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted Geico 

message: I think there's a typo in the right hand column. The error might be "Gekkonidae" as it's spelled "Gekkoninae" in the body of the text, and "Gekkonidae" is only mentioned half a dozen times on Google whereas "Gekkoninae" is very popular.
:Hello, if conventions are the same than in France, Gekkonidae is the name of the familly of the geckos (in the biological sense) while Gekkoninae is a sub-familly (still in the biological sense) of the previous one, containing the true geckos.
:Please note that depending of the used classification the sub-familly may not appears.
:By the way I do not understand why Gekkonidae is a redirect to Gecko, as the first one is about a biological term and the second one is about an animal. Regards, 134.158.71.97 17:04, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible typo 

message: Would it be a good idea to add that they are harmless to humans (as I'm guessing they are)? Perhaps where it's said that "several species of geckos make their home inside human habitations." Stop The Lies 22:52, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Harmless

message: Shouldn't the pages Gekko and Gecko be combined?
-m-i-k-e-y- 14:39, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Combining pages

message: The lead is too long for this article. (WP:LEAD) --Matt57 (talk•contribs) 19:16, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a section heading to split it apart. I'm also going to remove that empty "predators" section, as I'd guess they have different ones for each region/species. --Quiddity 04:03, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead is too long 

message: The Gecko foot adhesion is described as van der Wasls forces, shouldn't it be correctly refered to as the Casimir effect, as VdW is generaly used only for describing the intermolular forces on a mollecular scale.  For the macroscopic effect of these forces, it is the [casimir effect]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.86.51.104 (talk) 02:33, August 29, 2007 (UTC) 
Why does the article say in the beginning "one hypothesis explains the ability in terms of the van der Waals force" as if this were scientifically contested, but lateron we get no alternative theories or references to works that back that doubt?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.156.214.71 (talk) 13:20, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Van der Waals? 

message: A single foot of a gecko can contain almost 500,000 setae each about twice the diameter of a human hair, i.e. 100 millionths of a meter, and each of these is in turn tipped with between 100 and 1,000 spatulae.
By my calculations this would make each foot the size of a credit card! So I rewrote it, bringing in a newer, 2005, paper from Hansen and Autumn, the same scientists as in the 2002 cite. I tried to make it clearer by showing the thinnest human hair would contain over 12 setae, and that they resist about 10 atmospheres stress. -84user (talk) 00:32, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calculation? 

message: Though potentially difficult at this taxanomic level it might be good to have something of the form: Most geckos eat mainly insects but some eat foo and a few species eat bar
:I'd like to see what it eats, and what eats it  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.198.64.58 (talk) 03:15, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Natural Habitats? General feeding habits? 

message: Wiki zoologists/biologists, please add a reference to the recent discovery by an evolutionary biologist named Tim Higham and his co-researcher professor Anthony Russell as published in Proceedings B. Their discovery indicates that the gecko's grip is triggered by gravity. So geckos do not respond to the slipperiness of a surface but rather to its angle. As Russell explains in a YouTube video, "Body orientation rather than any interaction with the surface is what triggers when this system is switched on ... the central nervous system of the brain and ear probably plays an intensive role in the gecko's internal trigger...something in their system tells them to turn it on at 10 degrees: (referring to the angle of the surface in question). I found this in today's Jakarta Globe, which reprinted an earlier article in The Washington Post. Thanks! Frankly speaking (talk) 10:53, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discovery made by Higham and Russell 

message: Concerning this text: "Each seta has a diameter of 5 micrometers. Human hair varies from 18 to 180 micrometers, so a human hair could hold between 3 and 36 setae."
I hope this isn't too pedantic, but it seems to me that you could put at least five 5-micrometer-diameter tubes into and 18-micrometer-diameter tube; perhaps more. If we're comparing widths instead of volume, perhaps this should say, "so it takes 3 to 36 setae to equal the width of a human hair." (Or something like that.)
I don't want to make the change myself, just in case I'm missing something. Dcwaterboy (talk) 23:51, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Width of hairs 

message: User:209.183.185.226 today added "Domain: Eukarya" to the taxobox, whereupon User:89.240.239.157 removed it without comment. User:Sjö reverted the removal, whereupon  89.240.239.157 undid that reversion, again with no comment; but did post at the Help desk. 
I believe 89.240.239.157 is completely wrong, and the domain does belong (and have answered the help desk question accordingly); but in view of the fact that there has been this reversion episode, I decided to open discussion here rather than just restore the domain myself. --ColinFine (talk) 12:05, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Domain

message: Am I missing something? On the Skink page it says "With about 1200 described species, the Scincidae are the second most diverse family of lizards, exceeded only by the Gekkonidae (or geckos)" but on the Gecko page it says "Geckos are the second most species rich group of lizards (after skinks), with close to 1,500 different species worldwide" - which is right? Manbilong (talk) 09:21, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of species

message: It is listed as an infraorder at Gekkonidae#Taxonomy_and_classification. It bounces back to Gecko.
I just added missing taxoboxes to items on that list. Please check my work. Can Infra come after Sub? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:59, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Gekkonidae]] 

message: Not sure if Gekkota is a sub or infraorder. Is this cladogram correct: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~gambl007/geckos.html Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:14, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Gecko#Taxonomy and classification]] 

message: Which taxon does this article describe? It is not the family Gekkonidae, not the genus Gekko, and also not the infraorder Gekkota; but what else? Something in between? Perhaps, the article should be merged with Gekkonidae? FelixReimann (talk) 12:06, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doublet? 

message: Should this article be merged with Gecko? See Talk:Gecko#Doublet.3F FelixReimann (talk) 12:08, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: @: That's absolutely reasonable, but unfortunately the current article is named Gecko, and covers something between Gekkonidae (fairly good coverage) and Gekkota (a bit of Taxonomy, not much more). I suggest we Do not merge Gekkota, adjust the article to cover Gekkonidae only, and merge Gekkonidae here. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:57, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: @ Pygopodidae and Gekkonidae are two of seven familes under Gekkota, which are all broadly known as geckos. For example, EOL treats all Gekkota, including pygopodid lizards, as geckos. About their evolutionary relationship, this PLOS One article says a lot—pygopodid lizards are geckos too. Hence, Gekkota and geckos are technically synonymous—a compelling rationale for merging. Chhandama (talk) 03:15, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  EOL displays "gecko" as a common name for both Gekkota and Gekkonidae. EOL doesn't show any common name for 4 of the families, but it calls Eublepharidae "eyelid geckos" and Pygopodidae "snake-lizards". The PLS One article is studying Gekkota and repeatedly calls them geckos. And I'm not arguing that Gekkota isn't a good clade/taxon. The question is whether readers searching for "gecko" are best served by reading an article that treats geckos as a suborder or a family. The PLS One' is one data point for suborder. Google Scholar has 7660 results for gecko+Gekkonidae and 1800 for gecko+Gekkota. That's a very crude analysis and not a final word. However, while you've established that gecko can refer to Gekkota, I have yet to see any evidence that Gekkota is a better match to the common name "gecko" than Gekkonidae. And if "gecko" doesn't match well to either scientific concept, it's probably better not to do any merges, but adjust this article to reflect that the common name is ambiguous scientifically. Plantdrew (talk) 04:15, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Gecko matches Gekkonidae rather well, both in hit-count and in everyone's perception that any member of that family is a gecko. I don't believe anybody feels intuitively that a snake-lizard is a gecko. Whether 'Gecko' is a title or a redirect is quite unimportant; but it should lead to an article about the Gekkonidae only, so the taxonomy section needs to be replaced. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:21, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have made a technical argument, and on the more popular usage I shall argue no further. But to Chiswick Chap, it should be known that gecko is not only about Gekkonidae, while it is true that all Gekkkonidae are geckos, but not all geckos are Gekkonidae. The main problem is with Pygopodidae, whether we embrace them as geckos or not. Plantdrew's suggestion may be more feasible that gecko is better be labelled umbiguous. Chhandama (talk) 03:30, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: What significance has the tail?  They seem to swish it as a signal, and also slap it on whatever surface they're on (wall, ceiling).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.198.64.58 (talk) 10:42, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tail 

message: They seem aggressive toward each other, although that may be between different species.  They bite each other - tail and abdomen.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.198.64.58 (talk) 10:44, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aggressive 

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message: It is the only fact in the first paragraph after the first sentence.  Really?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.113.109.127 (talk) 17:50, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the most important fact about geckos really that they cannot blink, and instead lick their eyes? 

message: I noticed the lizards in our yard changing color to match the surfaces they stood on. I'd always thought they were geckos, and I didn't know they could do that. So I checked the Wikipedia article and found no mention of that ability. I double-checked on other websites and found that yes, geckos can change color like chameleons. So why isn't it mentioned here?
DEAbbot (talk) 21:22, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of the fact that geckos can change color like chameleons? 

message: Under "Adhesion ability", in the sentence "However, a recent study suggests that gecko adhesion...", change "recent" to "2014". It's setting off my MOS:RELTIME alarm. 70.163.208.142 (talk) 19:30, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: ARandomName123 (talk) 20:39, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 November 2022 

message: The etymology section’s grammar is incorrect. Please remove “Indonesian-Malaysian” and replace it with Malay since these are both standardized versions. It should say “The Neo-Latin gekko and English 'gecko' stem from Malay word gēkoq, borrowed from the Javanese word tokek, deriving from the sounds that some species like Tokay gecko make”. 2600:100C:A211:5D6D:8071:F30A:B3A6:9F9F (talk) 19:03, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: And WP:RS? --Fama Clamosa (talk) 20:29, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

text: Not done: Need sourcing to consider this request. —Sirdog (talk) 00:42, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request  

message: The paragraph explaining that the gecko setae do NOT use Van der Waals force doesn’t get to that point until the last sentence. Other sections still refer to the method of overcoming the Van der Waals force on the setae. This needs someone with more knowledge than me to update things a bit. CaedMcG (talk) 03:14, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Van der Waals still?