Patti Harrison

My mom is pretty unimpressed by everything. She loves black-and-white movies, and the only things she watches in color on T.V. are Judge Judy and Geico commercials because she loves the Geico gecko. I think it would mean something to her if I made it in a Geico commercial.

American Actress

Geckos are often associated with tropical environments, but can be found worldwide.

Natural Habitats

A gecko's ability to climb walls is due to special pads on its feet, a unique trait.

Wall-Climbing Ability

Geckos are sometimes kept as pets; learners might encounter conversations about them in this context.

Pet Reference

 Meanwhile, nocturnal geckos have pupils that shrink into slits studded with pinholes in higher light conditions. Each pinhole projects a separate, sharp image onto the geckos retina. Scientists think that comparing these different inputs might help the gecko judge distance without having to move.

Why do cats have...

 creating enough combined force to support its weight. In fact, the whole gecko could dangle from a single one of its toes. That super stickiness can be broken, though, by changing the angle just a little bit. So, the gecko can peel its foot back off,

How do geckos defy...

 to measure the sticking power of one single hair from it and to do that you needed the techniques borrowed from the most advanced physics like these the results were astonishing they discovered that theoretically a gecko walking

Sticky Gecko Feet PIPE...

 If you go into a museum and look at each gecko species, you see they have all different hairs, different lengths, and thicknesses, and patterns. Why? I don't know! But you should come to Berkeley and help me figure this out.

Curiosity, discovery and...

 The leaf-tailed gecko and the octopus fool viewers by blending into the surfaces on which they rest. Other animals use mimicry to protect themselves. Harmless scarlet kingsnakes have evolved red, yellow, and black patterns

The sneakiest tricksters...

 honeydew is sweet and the ants need to do to help what the heck gecko number two is um where is gecko number two it was here just a second ago believe it or not what is hiding right here in plain

Meet the Ninja Gecko PIPE...

 staggering 850 species of gecko from the most beautifully beaded of lizards to the tiniest the most recently discovered is just one and a half centimetres long the smallest lizard in the world

A Sticky Gecko PIPE Space...

 stairs like a human with the occasional clumsiness of a human or perhaps spider-man will one day be deco man a gecko can support its entire body weight

From mach-20 glider to...

 the tiny pygmy gecko is a master of the jungle so my newt it could sit on a fingertip he is dwarfed by life in the undergrowth

The Unsinkable Lizard PIPE...

 Or perhaps, Spider Man will one day be Gecko Man. A gecko can support its entire body weight with one toe.