Regarding Geckos

I've been enthralled with these creatures since the moment i got here and haven't actually had the opportunity to see them very often. You can hear them all the time but they are pretty mysterious otherwise. In Laos, one guy told me that a dukae gecko fell on his stepmother and she couldn't get it off because it has sticky suctions on its hands. the woman was freaking out and the gecko started biting her! they ended up having to kill it which must have been traumatic for the woman as well. Chan told me that if one of them gets on you, you just have to wait for it to move. what?! yeah right! so you better believe that i was super-apprehensive when i took this picture at kirk's house. the thais have even made a horror movie involving a huge, human-eating gecko. so here is some more info on the critters from wikipedia:

The Tokay Gecko (pronounced Du-kae), is a nocturnal arboreal gecko native to southeast Asia and the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Their native habitat is rainforest trees and cliffs, and they also frequently adapt to human habitations, roaming walls and ceilings at night in search of insect prey. Tokay geckos are aggressive carnivores which will eat a variety of insects and even small mice. Their aggressive behaviour can lead to attacks on other male Tokays, other gecko species, and also human handlers. Tokays are the second largest gecko species. They are distinctive in appearance, with a bluish or grayish body sporting orange or red spots.
They are renowned for their aggressive disposition and (unusually for lizards) their loud vocalizations, sometimes referred to as a bark. Their mating call, a loud croak, is variously described as sounding like tokeh or gekk-gekk, whence both the common and the scientific name (deriving from onomatopoeic names in Malay, Sundanese or Javanese), as well as the family name Gekkonidae and the generic term gecko. The bite of a large tokay, while unlikely to cause lasting damage to a human, is painful and can easily draw blood. Furthermore, a tokay gecko, once having bitten, will not readily let go. Tokay owners report that the only effective way (other than waiting) to get the lizard to release its hold is to submerge it in water.