Hygiene

Hygiene
Originally uploaded by konaboy.

This is the first time I've caught a gecko with its tongue out. It may have been taunting me, or maybe it was sizing up my potential as a meal, not sure which. Anyway, this one didn't seem as timid as most, and scurried down the trunk of this manila palm until it was just above my head. It repeated this eye-licking maneuver several times, and I was lucky enough to capture one of them. The whole open-mouth-stick-out-tongue-lick-eyeball-retract-tongue-close-mouth sequence only takes a fraction of a second, so I was amazed I caught it at all.

Maybe now I can move on to cats or babies or something (ya, right!)