See geckos and other new babies in Prague ZOO
This year, already nine hundred animals have been born in the Prague ZOO. The most recent ones, four gecko babies, are literally a wonder. These four miraculous reptiles helped to variegate the ZOO´s population, together with, for example, a baby giraffe, young vultures, a gorilla cub or a hippo calf.
The baby reptiles are a genus of geckos, often referred to as “wonder geckos” (Teratoscincus scincus scincus). And what makes them so miraculous? “These geckos got their nickname, because their eyes shine like rubies, when one lights them with a flash-light,” the Prague ZOO chief breeder of reptiles, Nataša Velenská, explains.
Also, geckos are able to lick their own eyes and the fact, that their gender
This year, already nine hundred animals have been born in the Prague ZOO. The most recent ones, four gecko babies, are literally a wonder. These four miraculous reptiles helped to variegate the ZOO´s population, together with, for example, a baby giraffe, young vultures, a gorilla cub or a hippo calf.
The baby reptiles are a genus of geckos, often referred to as “wonder geckos” (Teratoscincus scincus scincus). And what makes them so miraculous? “These geckos got their nickname, because their eyes shine like rubies, when one lights them with a flash-light,” the Prague ZOO chief breeder of reptiles, Nataša Velenská, explains.
Also, geckos are able to lick their own eyes and the fact, that their gender