A Madagascar Giant Day Gecko drinking the sap from a traveller’s tree seed pod.
The tail has been regrown; probably lost the original one during a spat with another male. He has a few recent-looking battle scars on his body as well. A real bar-room brawler.
If you zoom in, you can see the red tongue sipping at the leaking sap of the pod.
They are beautiful creatures but are a major invasive threat to endemic species on the island. They are most definitely not welcome here.
An excerpt from the link below:
“Eating the same food resources and occupying the same habitat as native geckos, the Madagascar giant day gecko is also a direct predator. Steve Buckland "fears the worst in the next ten or twenty years" if no suitable control method is found. According to him, studies show a "drastic impact on local biodiversity, causing up to 90%" decline of some species in several areas of Mauritius.”
