Jesus Lizard runs on water, this one strides on ceilings and also on walls

Source - @cryptopie

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We call these Lizards locally as "Butiki", at least in my local language that is because we have many dialects here in my country which is an archipelago or group of islands, heck even the village after our village has their own unique accent which is deeper than the accent of my Mother's home province south of my province.

Anyway, these house lizards are commonly seen here in the houses, they are almost everywhere. They are a good part of the environment because they eat insects like Mosquitoes especially when Termites in their mounds would seasonally break-out with wings, then these house lizards would feast on them.

The house lizards by the way is an opportunistic creatures because if your food is left uncovered, the will get on it and help themselves. But once they see outside movement like you turn on the lights or enter the room, they will notice you and run away. They are shy creatures and is afraid of bigger creatures like people. They do not bite and even if they do, the will not cause a danger because they are small.

If you try to get a hold of them they will detach their tails which would jerk around as if it another creature, it is a nature's mechanism for them to take away the attention of the attacker so that they can scoot away in a safe place if the attention of the predator or attacker goes to the detached wiggling tail. Afterwards this lizards will grow back their tails.

Not all house lizards like this one has the same dark color as many has a lighter color. Maybe this one's mother is just around dirty walls so it begets dark-colored offspring. But even though they have light colors, you can still notice them although most of the time they are just ignored and left to stay and do their own things because they cannot be eliminated and it is pointless to do so because it is believed to be not good to kill them as it would result in bad luck.

I was once fascinated by them when I was younger because these lizards would sometimes create a "Tsk-tsk-tsk" sound and you could not determine where that peculiar sound was coming from except when they are doing it, they are tapping their tails on the walls or ceilings. Its one of their ways of interacting to other house lizard and I think it is equivalent of either courting another house lizard or a territorial disputes if not a mating call or even a warning to other house lizard entering their turf.

Now they call a Lizard that walks "Runs" on water as "Jesus Lizard", now what do you call that walks on ceilings and walls?

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