- DISTRIBUTION : Found in Northeast India Bhutan Nepal and Bangladesh throughout Southeast Asia including the Philippines and Indonesia and to the western New Guinea
- HABITAT : Its native habitat is rainforest where it lives on trees and cliffs.
- BEHAVIOUR AND FOOD HABIT : They are solitary creatures. They only encounter the opposite sex during the breeding season. Territorial species. Calls of the Tokay Gecko are used for communication finding members of the opposite sex during the breeding season and as a means of defence. Tokay Geckoes are nocturnal creatures. They are mainly insectivorous feeds on different types of insects such as springtails mealworms cockroaches crickets grasshoppers pink mice and locusts.
- FOOD SERVED HERE : Live Cockroaches.
- BRIEF DESCRIPTION :
1. BODY LENGTH- 30 to 40 cm
2. BODY WEIGHT- 150 to 400 g
3. BODY COLOUR - Blue grey orange spotted skin - LIFE-SPAN : 10 to 20 years in captivity
- THREAT : Hunting and human exploitation
- CONSERVATION STATUS : Not Evaluated IUCN not listed in CITES Schedule IV WPA 1972.