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pum Family Gekkonidae

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A gliding gecko, which has the ability to spread out lateral skin folds between its limbs and body, a Smooth-backed Parachute (Ptychozoon lionotum) holding onto a tree trunk with its adhesive feet and another fallen down on the forest floor while escaping from a foraging gibbon, its colour closely resembles dead leaves and twigs. (R1000 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr; R1005 @Suwit Punnadee)



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       Web-footed slender-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus brevipalmatus) attends to its prey - a cockroach nymph on a Streblus ilicifolius branch, and another searching for food on a dead twig at night. (R1010 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr; R1015 @Suwit Punnadee)



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       A juvenile Southern banded-fingered gecko (Cyrtodactylus pulchellus) found underneath bed sheet in Gibbon camp, and adult foraging along a bole at night. (R1020 @Suwit Punnadee; R1025 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr)



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       Flat-tailed gecko (Hemidactylus platyurus) suspended on a tree trunk of Artocarpus elasticus and Garnot's gecko (Hemidactylus garnotii) by its adhesive feet. (R1030, R1035 @Suwit Punnadee)



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  R1042      Phuket round-eyed gecko (Cnemaspis phuketensis) foraging along the rock and tree bole. Eggs are usually laid in pairs of 2 eggs in a rock crevice. (R1040, R1045, R1042 @Suwit Punnadee)


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       The well known gecko of its distinctive call. Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) resting during a day, it is more often heard than seen in the forest. However it is also familiar because its occupies houses as readily as forest, and the Oldham's bow-fingered gecko (Cyrtodactylus oldhami) foraging at night only found in deep forest. (R1050 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr; R1055 @Suwit Punnadee)



pum Family Agamidae

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       Camouflaged for protection, a Green crested lizard (Bronchocela cristatella) searches for food along the streambank, just awake at night, and changes color rapidly when confronting a potential threat. (R1095, R1097, R1098 R1100 @Suwit Punnadee)



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       A Marked sping lizard (Acanthosaura cf. crucigera) confronts the visitors, gorging itself on a Long horn grasshopper (Tettigoniidae), and a pair just awake at night. (R1060, R1065, R1067 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr)



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       Greater sping lizards (Acanthosaura armata) found in a common posture, clinging on a tree bole along the nature-education trail in deep forest. (R1070, R1075 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr)



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       A female Forest crested lizard (Calotes emma emma) covering her nest by throwing soil over the site where she has dug, A juvenile enjoying its prey of a Large brown cricket (Brachytrypes portentosus) from the forest floor, and a male whose sun basking activity on a tree trunk confronts visitors. (R1090 @Owart Maprang; R1080 @Suwit Punnadee; R1085 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr)



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      A pair of Common flying dracons (Draco volans) during a love dance on Flambuoyant (Delonix regia) tree trunk, and a male displaying his throat fans and neck lappet to communicate and warn the other male. They are an arboreal and diurnal animal. (R1105 @Suwit Punnadee; R1110 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr)



        A male Barred gliding lizard (Draco taeniopterus)displays its attractive neck lappet. (R1115 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr) R1115

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       A Barred gliding lizard (Draco taeniopterus) showing a reddish patagium, they use the out-stretched patagium to sail across to the other lower tree. (R1120 @Suwit Punnadee; R1125 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr)



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       A Blanford's gliding lizards (Draco Blanfordii) always found in deep forest. (R1130, R1135 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr)



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       A Dusky gliding lizard (Draco obscurus), in sleeping posture on a huge tree trunk and held to inspect its patagium. (R1137 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr; R1138 @Suwit Punnadee)



pum Family Scincidae

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       An attractive striped juvenile Olive tree skink (Dasia olivacea) seen sun basking, and an adult forages up on a tree. They are an arboreal, diurnal animal. (R1137 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr; R1138 @Suwit Punnadee)



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       Many-lined sun skink (Mabuya multifasciata) confronts us, and gorges itself on a cockroach nymph. (R1150, R1155 @Phamon Sumphanthamitr)



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      A Streamside skink (Sphenomorphus maculates) foraging along the forest floor. (R1160, R1165 @Suwit Punnadee)

 

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