A joint team of Imphal West district police and People for Animal (PFA), Thoubal rescued four tokay geckos kept in a cage at a taxi stand in Langol foothills here on Wednesday. IMPHAL: A joint team of ...

The Mister Sparky Pet of the Week comes to us with Paws Humane Society Executive Director, Courtney Pierce. Meet Tokay Geco! Tokay Geco is definitely not a dog but a kitten! Paws Humane has about 150 ...

New research has been investigating the origins of tokay geckos in Hong Kong, both the wild ones and those sold in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) shops. Tokay geckos are one of the most ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Claims that a nocturnal Asian lizard can be used to help treat the HIV virus have led to a sharp boom in smuggling of the reptile, putting it at risk, a conservation group ...

With more than one million geckos estimated to be traded annually, effective implementation of this newly adopted listing could help, tokay geckos benefit from increased monitoring and regulation of ...

Your pet gecko might make you sick, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed fecal samples from Indonesian tokay geckos -- an imported species popular as pets in the United States. They found ...

Carrying a backpack on his back and a stick in his hand, Lalpu is wading through the tall grass atop a forested hill. He hears a “ge-cko” croaking call, and stops. He’s sure that at least one gecko is ...

Reptiles have long been considered to be dim-witted and cold-blooded (in more ways than one), but research is beginning to find that they possess an impressive collection of cognitive abilities. For ...

Even as the International Day for Biological Diversity was celebrated on Tuesday, the Border Security Force (BSF) seized three tokay geckos from West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts. The ...

Tokay geckos are being caught and trafficked from northeastern Indian states to Southeast Asian countries, where many people believe that medicines made from gecko meat can cure diseases such as HIV.

Tokay geckos harbor bacteria that are resistant to a number of antibiotics, making them a health concern for pet owners, according to a study on geckos imported from Indonesia. The research focused on ...