Re: [gecko]Tockay diet & behavour questions

[Ingo Kober]

Hi Obeligz, at least in captivity tokays hesitate to prey on lizards. I had several cases of escaped tokays which each spent several weeks free roaming in my herp room. This room is inhabited by a quite prolific population of Cosymbotus platyurus. I often saw the tokays basking side by side with the Cosymbotus without any obvious interest in them. Also none of  the speciemens which I can individually identify ever vanished while a tokay was on the loose. But I don´t want to exclude that a hungry tokay may snack on a delicious small lizard here and then. Tokays do normally live in pairs. There is a strong bonding between the partners and  its not easy to exchange any of the partners of an old pair. Anyhow, the offspring of one pair often stays pretty close to their birth place, even as adults and old males do tend to much more tolerate their sons than any foreign male. So most tokays inside a house in east asia are very much related to each other. Tokay females do have a strong tendency to use common egg laying places. This can be observed in captivity as well as in the wild. Sometimes you find more than 100 remainders of eggs at one place. Hoep that helps a bit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ingo obeligz schrieb: Hi. We are having a discussion in the Norwegian mailinglist about tockays and their diet/behaviour so I thought I’d seek some info and advice here aswell.. I was talking to a guy who has been to Thailand and reports that there were tockays, and housegeckoes ( H. frenatus and possibly Cosymbotus platyurus) in the house where he lived. Are the housegeckoes pray for the tockays? To what extent do tockays prey on smaller lizards in the wild? Has anyone observed tockays eating fruit in the wild or is this very uncommon? It it possible to get hold of a fecal analysis which determines what the primary sources of food of WC tockays were?   Do tockays prefer to live in pairs or colonies? Or is this a question of food availability? When tockays live in colonies, do all the females deposit eggs in same spot or does each female have it’s own spot for egglaying? Regards obeligz