that was really, really, REALLY slow-paced. I slept for an hour after starting the clip and still woke up in time for the first gecko attack.

>> ^ForgedReality:

Anybody know what kind of geckos they are? I was thinking tokays, but the tail looks different. Definitely related at least. And that snake, is it some kind of green viper?


The people are speaking Thai, and Thai geckos are tokay/toukay, so I bet that is correct. Their tail does look a bit different -- most of the geckos here have a tail that gets very wide right past where it connects to the body, sort of cardioid in shape, or like an elongated second head.

As for the snake, looks like a tree viper of some kind to me, based on near the end where it extends and you can get a clear silhouette of the head. There are lots of red-throated tree vipers in my area in Thailand, but they have a more brownish green color with a geometric pattern on their backs (plus the red area around the throat) whereas this one looked pretty solidly and smoothly green. Dunno.

I'll have my wife watch and see if the people in the recording say anything definitive.


***edit:
She said they are definitely toukay, which as far as I know is just gecko in Thai. She said the snake is called a "ngoo keyow" in Thai, which just translates as "green snake", so not particularly helpful. Here is a web page with some likely suspects: http://www.siam-info.de/english/snakes_crotalidae.html

Green tree viper is probably correct, but that applies to quite a few distinct species. All are poisonous but some only mildly so for humans. Not sure if the geckos/toukay would be resistant though.

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Anybody know what kind of geckos they are? I was thinking tokays, but the tail looks different. Definitely related at least. And that snake, is it some kind of green viper?

The balls on that gecko!

@Phreezdryd
and it seems like greed and aggression in general are often socially regarded as positive traits.
gordon gecko?
is there a sociopath bell curve?

Geico. Gecko.

Ha.

Duckman, Duckman does whatever a duck can.
He can swim, he can fly, he can sleep with an open eye.
LOOKOUT!! There goes Duckman!!

Is he stealthy? Listen Gordon Gecko,
His ninja quacks don't even echo.
In the spring he migrates far,
In the fall, he shits on your car.

To him, life is just one big pleasure.
Should you notice a man with feathers,
You've found the Duckman!

Congrats you righteous Mallard!

SeaMonkey v2 because I like the suite setup with its e-mails, newsgroup/usenet reader, Gecko engine like Firefox's and its extension support, like its GUI, etc.

sigh .. I tested the embed as a new sift before submitting this fix and it played fine.

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the link for the video is here:

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>> ^ant:
And ants live!


Yes but they are jerked around a bit. He thought he had tasty grass coming; then suddenly reptiles everywhere!

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