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Scott W
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 Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:31 pm Post subject: Amazing Day Gecko Food! |
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Whilst feeding my snakes I had a western diamondback rattler manage to lean in and bite a few mice that were waiting to be used as feeders, anyway as they had been bitten I didn't want to feed them to anything else, I put them in a small open tub on the floor by a bank of vivs.
While chatting on the phone to friend I noticed one of the giant day geckos coming over to look, he ran down the bank of vivs and stuck his head in the tub, watching as one mouse was just in the last stages of heart failure from the venom bite, then I couldn't believe what I saw next, the gecko bit the ADULT mouse on the nose and tried running back up the wall with it (the mouse must of weighed more than the gecko and was certainly bigger in body size!. The gecko got about a foot up the wall before dropping it!
Now there was NO WAY the gecko could of eaten the mouse so I'm not sure what plans it had in store for it  , anyway after it dropped it it ran off up the wall and just watched, perhaps feeling stupid for even trying 
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Stuart
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have you ever known them to feed on rodents?..or could it have been a territorial thing?
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May it just have been an instinctual grab at the mouse as it was twitching?
A natural reflex to livefood?
Some of my frogs will grab at empty feeding tongs, this may be habit as thye expect food. or may just be an instinct as they grab at my fingers to!
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Territorial I`d have thought. Bet it suprised you Scott!
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Scott W
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:35 am Post subject: |
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| Stuart wrote: | | have you ever known them to feed on rodents?..or could it have been a territorial thing? |
I don't doubt for one second that they would eat pinks and maybe even small fluffs but never thought they would even attempt something so big.
She acted the same as when she grabs normal prey, that is she grabs it, moves a little way away from the 'grab site' then shakes her head killing the prey by smashing it on the wall each time it shakes it's head. She didn't get as far as shaking it, I'm guessing due to the weight of the mouse. It didn't look like a 'get out of my space' type territorial attack.
I will try and re-create it again but with the camera ready 
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Rickeezee
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Thats what my Day Gex do, quick grab move away and shake it (sounds like a move from Stus line dancing).
Pics would be well good Scott. 
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