john b good Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 There was something on the forum a while back about the little house lizards (jing jok) that tend to make their home 'in your home' There are many positives having these little creatures in your home (eating other small creepies etc) but there is also a bit of a downside as well. I don't know whether it is the season or their diet at this time, but they are sh1tting everywhere. I would not have believed just how much excrement that these little creature can generate. Have others had this experience and is there a solution? And I am not talking about exterminating them either although it might come to that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Mist Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Those little lizards are Gecko's and they get pretty big, so the bigger the lizard the bigger his droppings. They are usefull when small but once they get over about 6" long get rid of them, I normally get my bro in law to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Up2U Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 That's why there are plate racks in the shops with covers on them. No good doing your washing-up and then getting shit all over it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plachon Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Those little lizards are Gecko's and they get pretty big, so the bigger the lizard the bigger his droppings. They are usefull when small but once they get over about 6" long get rid of them, I normally get my bro in law to do it. Think you'll find he's referring to ordinary, common or garden "jing joks" Bronco, not baby "tookays", (i.e. geckos, as you are). The word "gecko" gets mixed up a lot, but I don't define jingjoks as geckos, but lizards. Both shit a lot around the house, but tookays are fearsome carnivores with a taste for everything from moths, jingjok tails to fingers (if you give 'em the opportunity). It's ###### hard to keep the buggers out the house, and they do do their bit at keeping some of the insects down, while the tookays help to keep the jingjoks down, so should be encouraged as part of a healthy ecosystem. Admittedly, sweeping up their crap can be a bit of a bother sometimes, but as most Thais are expert dust sweepers on a daily basis, it's not adding any extra work to the process and those little lumps actually move in the direction intended, unlike the dust which tends to just relocate itself back down on the floor 2ft away. Now,there's a topic - is sweeping or mopping a better dust removal method? (Sure sign of boredom on a rainy Isaan morning, when banaal lizard crap like this is raised. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Monsterman Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Hey My Father was in Thailand with the US Air Force and he keeps telling me about a lizard that says "F-YOU" Is this true? I been to thailand many times and I never heard them and I was in the boonies some of those times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Hey My Father was in Thailand with the US Air Force and he keeps telling me about a lizard that says "F-YOU" Is this true? I been to thailand many times and I never heard them and I was in the boonies some of those times I think that is the bigger ones - similiar sound as to what you wrote 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monsterman Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 last time my Dad was in thailand he did not hear that many of them I would love to hear that sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopburi3 Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Hey My Father was in Thailand with the US Air Force and he keeps telling me about a lizard that says "F-YOU" Is this true? I been to thailand many times and I never heard them and I was in the boonies some of those times Plachon mentioned them ""tookays", (i.e. geckos)". But we seem to misunderstand the Thai and to us it sounds more like a nasty comment. They are normally found in roof structures of country homes. And they can be quite ugly and mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monsterman Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Yeah I just called my dad and he said it starts off with "tookay tookay F-YOU" the sound they make it says when he heard it the first time he could not stop laughing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darknight Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Tha thai names actually are quite like the sound they make. So i'ts only F**you if you want to hear that it's sounds more like. "Tooo ke" hence the name tookay. same for chinchook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monsterman Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Well sorry for going off the poor guy that started this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monsterman Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 when you find a 4kg Komodo turd in your living room, start to panic. If i saw that I would not be in house for long I heard worse creature on earth to get bitten by Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penzman Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 You can listen to the tokay at this address, http://site.www.umb.edu/forum/1/ankh/member/fileUpl.html 3rd one at bottom of the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monsterman Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Thanks I played that for my dad and he said they leave the part with F-YOU out he said it is very destinctive sound and you cannot miss it otherwise he said that is what one sounds like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajarn Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Thanks I played that for my dad and he said they leave the part with F-YOU out he said it is very destinctive sound and you cannot miss it otherwise he said that is what one sounds like A bit of folklore I've heard about tookays... They are bad luck if living in your house.... Listen to them 'f you!' A series of 5, 7, 9, or 11 times is considered good luck for the house closest to that tookay. Even number repititions are considered bad luck... The last repitition, if it ends on a weaker note, doesn't count I grabbed one in my bedroom once...The tail came off in my hand and the tookay shit all over my wall. Real shit, too, not jingjok shit. Never could get the stain out of the paint, and I never tried tookay-hunting again. And regarding jing-joks shit, it's pretty small, and remember that their shit is mostly made up of mozzies and other insects that would likely have been annoying you... I only wish they would eat ants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monsterman Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Real shit, too, not jingjok shit. I am not being sarcastic at all Is there a difference?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajarn Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Real shit, too, not jingjok shit. I am not being sarcastic at all Is there a difference?? Jingjok shit is a hard little football-shaped turd that's sticky when fresh, but dries quickly. Tookay shit is of the creamy/chunky variety, and they seem to have a large colon.. I would suppose they'd taste the same, except, possibly, to the connoisseur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monsterman Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 I would suppose they'd taste the same, except, possibly, to the connoisseur. I'll pass on that one Never that hungry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfe Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 tookays - actually I find them beautiful creatures, a lot of colour and turqoise eyes. they never come close to anybody, they just stay on the walls. in my house there aren't many of the small ones anymore since my cat tries to kill them all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monsterman Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 after looking at the link supplied by penzman they are very pretty lizards your right elfe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinN Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Hey My Father was in Thailand with the US Air Force and he keeps telling me about a lizard that says "F-YOU" Is this true? I been to thailand many times and I never heard them and I was in the boonies some of those times I have not heard one here in central where I live now, But did hear them nightly and all night when I lived at San Sai ,just outside of CM, and last trip to CM I heard one while on the grounds of Mc Cormack hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
350torana Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 I love Geckos, always kill time by watching their antics on the wall . The shit doesn't worry me, but the funny smell in a room and then finding a squished decomposing one in the door ain't so pleasant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stocky Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 We are trying to rise the quality of the postings on this forum. So this is it? Lizard shit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 So this is it? Lizard shit! apparantly so ... inquiring minds want to know ... Anyway I heard that it's considered good luck if a Gecko craps on you ?!, I thought it was a bird or something until I looked up and seen them darting around in the eves. Everyone said that's good luck, yeah right. I've never enountered one that's agressive and like watching them defy gravity on the ceiling. They do have colorful eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajarn Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 So this is it? Lizard shit! apparantly so ... inquiring minds want to know ... Anyway I heard that it's considered good luck if a Gecko craps on you ?!, I thought it was a bird or something until I looked up and seen them darting around in the eves. Everyone said that's good luck, yeah right. That's just what one says when they're crapped on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stocky Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 So this is it? Lizard shit! apparantly so ... inquiring minds want to know ... Anyway I heard that it's considered good luck if a Gecko craps on you ?!, I thought it was a bird or something until I looked up and seen them darting around in the eves. Everyone said that's good luck, yeah right. That's just what one says when they're crapped on Too-kay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chonabot Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 The word "gecko" gets mixed up a lot, but I don't define jingjoks as geckos, but lizards. The Jingjoks are common house geckos , the gecko family has over 1050 members , the largest being the Tokay Gecko. I was sad enough to breed geckos for a while here in the UK , I still marvel at the prices people pay for captive bred Tokay geckos ( £70 a pair) Tokay can be aggressive , but only if cornered , the bite is strong and sometimes the only way to make the bastard release is to hold it underwater until breathing becomes more important than the finger in it's mouth. Read below for more useless facts on geckos.................. Gecko This article describes gecko lizards. If you are looking for the HTML renderer for Mozilla, go to Gecko layout engine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geckos Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Sub-order: Sauria Family: Gekkonidae Geckos are small to moderately large lizards belonging to the Family Gekkonidae and found in warm climates throughout the world. Geckos are unique among lizards in their vocalizations, making chirping sounds in social interactions with other geckos. Geckos are unusual in other respects as well. Many species have specialized toe pads that enable them to climb smooth vertical surfaces and even cross indoor ceilings with ease. These antics are well-known to persons living in warm regions of the world where several species of geckos make their home inside human habitations. These species (for example the House gecko) become part of the indoor menagerie and are seldom really discouraged because they feed on insect pestss. Most geckos are tan to dark grey, subtly patterned, and somewhat rubbery looking. Some species can change color to blend in with their surroundings. However others can be brightly colored. Like most lizards, they eat insects. Some species are parthenogenic, the females capable of reproducing without copulating with a male. This improves the gecko's ability to spread to new islands. The toes of the gecko have attracted a lot of attention, as they adhere to a wide variety of surfaces, without the use of liquids or surface tension. Recent studies of the setae on gecko footpads demonstrates that the attractive forces that hold geckos to surfaces are van der Waals interactions between the finely divided setae and the surfaces themselves. That these kinds of interactions involve no liquids (or no gases) is important; in theory, a boot made of synthetic setae would adhere as easily to the surface of the International Space Station as it would to a living room wall. Many gecko species may be kept as pets and will eat various kinds of insects. Table of contents [showhide] 1 Common species of geckos 2 Classification of geckos 3 External link Common species of geckos House gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus – A species that thrives around man and human habitation structures in the tropics and subtropics world wide. Indo-Pacific gecko, Hemidactylus garnoti – Also known as a fox gecko because of its long, narrow snout. This species is found in houses throughout the tropics. Leopard gecko – The most common gecko kept as a pet is the leopard gecko, which does not have toe pads with setae, but rather claws. These enable it to more easily climb on rough surfaces like tree bark. This gecko cannot climb the glass of a terrarium. The leopard gecko tends to be docile and calm. Mourning gecko, Lepidodactylus lugubris – This species is equally at home in the wild as in residential neighborhoods. Found in Hawai'i, it may have been an early Polynesian introduction. A parthenogenic species Stump-toed gecko, Gehyra mutilata (=Peropus mutilatus) – This gecko can vary its color from very light to very dark to blend into a background. At home in the wild as well as in residential neighborhoods. Tokay, Gekko gekko – This is the lizard for which geckos were named. It's mating call is a loud gek-gek-gek-gekkkk! The Tokay has naturalized in southern Florida. Tree gecko, Hemiphyllodactylus typus – Tree geckos are forest dwellers. Classification of geckos The gecko family contains some 1050 known species which are divided into five subfamilies: Subfamily Aeluroscalabotinae Genus Aeluroscalabotes Subfamily Eublepharinae Genus Coleonyx Genus Eublepharis Genus Goniurosaurus Genus Hemitheconyx Genus Holodactylus Subfamily Gekkoninae Genus Afroedura Genus Afrogecko Genus Agamura Genus Ailuronyx Genus Alsophylax Genus Aristelliger Genus Asaccus Genus Blaesodactylus Genus Bogertia Genus Briba Genus Bunopus Genus Calodactylodes Genus Carinatogecko Genus Chondrodactylus Genus Christinus Genus Cnemaspis Genus Coleodactylus Genus Colopus Genus Cosymbotus Genus Crossobamon Genus Cryptactites Genus Cyrtodactylus Genus Cyrtopodion Genus Dixonius Genus Dravidogecko Genus Ebenavia Genus Euleptes Genus Geckolepis Genus Geckonia Genus Gehyra Genus Gekko Genus Goggia Genus Gonatodes Genus Gonydactylus Genus Gymnodactylus Genus Haemodracon Genus Hemidactylus Genus Hemiphyllodactylus Genus Heteronotia Genus Homonota Genus Homopholis Genus Lepidoblepharis Genus Lepidodactylus Genus Luperosaurus Genus Lygodactylus Genus Matoatoa Genus Microscalabotes Genus Nactus Genus Narudasia Genus Pachydactylus Genus Palmatogecko Genus Paragehyra Genus Paroedura Genus Perochirus Genus Phelsuma Genus Phyllodactylus Genus Phyllopezus Genus Pristurus Genus Pseudogekko Genus Pseudogonatodes Genus Ptenopus Genus Ptychozoon Genus Ptyodactylus Genus Quedenfeldtia Genus Rhoptropus Genus Saurodactylus Genus Sphaerodactylus Genus Stenodactylus Genus Tarentola Genus Teratolepis Genus Thecadactylus Genus Tropiocolotes Genus Urocotyledon Genus Uroplatus Subfamily Teratoscincinae Genus Teratoscincus Subfamily Diplodactylinae Genus Bavayia Genus Carphodactylus Genus Crenadactylus Genus Diplodactylus Genus Eurydactylodes Genus Hoplodactylus Genus Lucasium Genus Naultinus Genus Nephrurus Genus Oedura Genus Phyllurus Genus Pseudothecadactylus Genus Rhacodactylus Genus Rhynchoedura Genus Saltuarius Genus Underwoodisaurus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Mist Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Thanks I played that for my dad and he said they leave the part with F-YOU out he said it is very destinctive sound and you cannot miss it otherwise he said that is what one sounds like A bit of folklore I've heard about tookays... They are bad luck if living in your house.... Listen to them 'f you!' A series of 5, 7, 9, or 11 times is considered good luck for the house closest to that tookay. Even number repititions are considered bad luck... The last repitition, if it ends on a weaker note, doesn't count I grabbed one in my bedroom once...The tail came off in my hand and the tookay shit all over my wall. Real shit, too, not jingjok shit. Never could get the stain out of the paint, and I never tried tookay-hunting again. And regarding jing-joks shit, it's pretty small, and remember that their shit is mostly made up of mozzies and other insects that would likely have been annoying you... I only wish they would eat ants. Everyone has them living in their houses in Banpaed, so the villiage must be full of bad luck, even used to see them on the walls at KhonKaen hotel on the 7th floor. Honestly have never heard that one before and nobody really seems to worry about them, except for the shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chonabot Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Au contraire , having a pair of Tokay living in your house is good luck , according to Thai folklore , however an odd number is not so good. Who's counting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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