I will show you step by step how this little one eats a big bug.
Shame, he lost a toe somewhere if you look at his right front foot.
The Cape dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus capensis)('lygodactylus' = 'flexible fingers') is a species of dwarf gecko found in the woodlands and forests of central and southern Africa. It also occurs commonly in towns and cities and is sometimes kept as a pet.
It occurs in South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Mozambique and Tanzania, including Pemba Island. Its distribution within South Africa has expanded south- and westwards towards the coastal areas since 1981.
This was how mankind learned how to go for the head of their prey.
The bug was alive and fiercely kicking away, but it had no chance against this little gecko warrior.
Just imagine if you had to battle like this to eat your lunch.
Happy days. He saw me at the same time as he started to swallow the bug.
A real little actor with that smile on his face.
And then it was done. I watched his stomach carefully to see if the bug would still be kicking inside his stomach, but no go as that bug was dead. A happy chappy with a full stomach.
Now when I say a dwarf gecko, is that this little guy barely 5cm in length is an adult lizard. I have published one previously eating a small moth, but I did not get it as clear as this event. Now you know how dwarf geckos hunt and eat their prey. I was just joking about the smiling, as he couldn't see me taking the photos through the glass window of our lounge. I would also not have seen him, if she hadn't called me anxiously and she said, Shame, look at that. Can I not go out to go and save that little bug? No, I said, that little gecko will not be very happy if you go and snatch his lunch away. Imagine if you sit in a restaurant with your meal on the table and somebody comes to snatch it away:)) I am sure that you will not be very happy.
Such is a lizard's life.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
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