Mga Tokó, as the people in de Visayas call the small lizards,
are living in houses and other buildings. The Tokó can be seen
as very useful, because they feed their selves with catching mosquitoes in the houses and other buildings.Though many Filipinos don’t like these little creatures, like many people don’t like spiders, these “mga toko” are in fact innocent.
The mga toko stick with their feet to ceilings and walls. They never come down and even disappear quickly if a human being is coming near.
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The Tuko Gecko (Gekko gecko) is a nocturnal arboreal gecko, that lives between northeast India and Bangladesh, throughout Southeast Asia, Philippines, Indonesia and western New Guinea. Its native habitat is rainforest trees and cliffs, but frequently adapts to rural human habitations, roaming walls and ceilings at night in search of insect prey. Increasing urbanization is reducing its range.
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s it was introduced into Hawaii, Florida, Texas, Belize, and several Caribbean islands, where it can be considered an invasive species.
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The Tokay Gecko is known as a Tuko or Toko in the Philippines, Tokek in Indonesian/Javanese, and tắc kè in Vietnamese, for its characteristic vocalizations. People have mixed feelings about it ranging from terror of the belief that its feet can tear your skin off to admiration for its entertaining vocalizations;[citation needed] in the Philippines, most people respect it and value it because it eats dangerous pests such as scorpions and giant centipedes.
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Watch Toku Video:
http://youtu.be/TU9SNx-IAtw
http://youtu.be/NY_pI3svXE0
http://youtu.be/NY_pI3svXE0
http://youtu.be/gBmIu4P71sg
http://youtu.be/SdoOnSkPMKg
http://youtu.be/vlFZ6YW4C7c
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