Does a Gecko Lizard harm human beings in any way?
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Only if you refuse to get Geiko insurance... then they come after you with a pitchfork.
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A few kinds of spiders are harmful to human beings. In North America, six kinds of spiders harm people, they are - the Brown Recluse, Sac, Black Widow, Brown Widow, Red-legged Widow and the Varied Widow. \n\nWater spiders are the only spiders that live most of their life underwater. The water spider breathes underwater from air bubbles that it holds close to its body. Its underwater nest is a silk web shaped like a small bell. The spider fills the web with air bubbles, which gradually push all the water out of the bell. The animal can live on this air for several months. Water spiders are found only in Europe and parts of Asia.
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It's quite possible.  I saw a tv show a while ago where a lioness (an animal which generally weighs less than even a baby elephant) survived a bite by a cobra, but a bite to a baby animal might be worse since its immune system is less well developed.  \n\nIt would really depend on how much venom got into the animal's system.
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Geckos are small to moderately large lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae which are found in warm climates throughout the world. Geckos are unique among lizards in their vocalizations, making chirping sounds in social interactions with other geckos. Geckos are unusual in other respects as well. Most geckos have no eyelids and instead have a transparent membrane which they lick to clean.\n\nLizards are reptiles of the order Squamata, which they share with the snakes (Ophidians). They are usually four-legged, with external ear openings and movable eyelids. Species range in adult length from a few centimeters (some Caribbean geckos) to nearly three meters (Komodo dragons).\n\nIguanas are larger than your average lizard. Several species of Iguanas are common as pets, especially the Green Iguana in the United States and Canada, which can easily grow to six feet long, even in captivity. When treated well they can be docile, affectionate, litterbox trainable, and even walked on a leash. Such pets are either crèche-raised, or harvested from the wild in Mexico. The average life span of a well taken care of pet iguana is usually 20 years.
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i tell you what i believe .... and we are not being informed by the medical feild ,, but our naturalist are telling it !!!!its all over the net  ........our animals are treated for parasites!!!!!!!!!we humans are not !!!!!!when i was a little girl and let us go back to even  out ancestors  they  treated once a year for  parasites  but  why have we quit??????? not me i found a remedy  and all the hurts and pains that i began getting as i became  older has now dissappeared believe it  or not  i do a dailey parasite program have for several years now nothing compares to it   .... so why are our animals more healthy ????isnt it funny we worm our dogs, cats, horses, cows, and so on  what about  us?????? something  for u to think about
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If, on the other hand, you are hoping the spider will survive, I would suggest NOT doing it. Exotic species are a major cause of ecosystem damage and it is often hobbyists or individuals that are responsible for the introductions. I am sure it is also illegal. Governments are very ineffectual in dealing with this problem because it involves trade and lots of money, I hope that individual citizens can be more responsible.
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Mmm... there are many kinds of legless lizards. I don't know where you live, but if it looked like its tail was missing, then it _was_ a lizard, because snakes do not autotomize their tails. Another good detail is if it looked like it had eyelids. Snakes don't have mobile eyelids, but snake-like lizards do.\n\nDid it look anything like this?\nhttp://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/f/f6/200px-Anguidae.jpg\nhttp://homepage.mac.com/jmdelacre/.cv/jmdelacre/Sites/.Pictures/reptiles-geniez/Chalcides-minutus2-web.jpg-thumb_269_202.jpg\n\nI'll check back :-)\n-------------------\nI'm back! Hey, that's great. If what you saw is indeed an Anguidae, the common name is "glass lizard" (glass, because they seem fragile, as they autotomize their tails really easily).\nThe most common species in Florida seem to belong to genus Ophisaurus. I suggest you do an image search using the genus name, you'll probably find the right species.\nOh, glass lizards are not dangerous, but they can bite!\nSee description of common Florida lizards here:\nhttp://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/UW061\nThis species is common:\nhttp://www.wildherps.com/species/O.ventralis.html
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At first I was angered by your question, but when faced with your undeniable facts, I am left speechless. You should emphasize more that monsters do eat humans though to better to connect the dots. A Noble prizeis in your future for sure.
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Yes. The human bite is one of the most dangerous bites!
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That would be the Frankensteintists, yes?\n\nHerpatologists probably have a "leg up" on this topic, hee hee hee, since many lizards have regenerative powers as do many worms, crustaceans,  and many other life non-mammalian forms
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Many lizard have salmonella on there bodies and while not poisonous it is harmful.
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I think you mean anole lizards. They do change color, but they are definitely NOT chameleons.
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Yes, humans do a lot more harm than wolves do.  Also, in many areas of the country, species that wolves used to keep in check are becoming severely overpopulated.  White-tailed deer in particular (also known as rats with hooves), but also wapiti (aka elk) in some regions have created major changes in local ecosystems.\n\nRe-introducing predators can help to manage these populations, in addition to helping to maintain the health of the wolf populations which are losing territory all over the world.
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No, the cobra is not responsible for 50,000 deaths per year.  The total number of death from all snakes bites is estimated byt the WHO as 30-40,000, with about 10-12,000 of those coming from India.\nIf you are defining "dangeous" as that creature that kills more *humans* per year than any other, than Calimecita is correct by far and away-humans (who are undeniably creatures) have killed more people than any other creature.  If you include parasites, then it's likely malaria-if you include all living organisms, then it's probably Staphylococcus aureus.  Then the boring ones that carry disease, ruin crops, and have caused both mass starvation and epidemics, the rats.
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i had a 4 foot iguania once i got a leash to walk it around with well a car went by and he jumped on my leg and then he climbed on my back and his clawes were so sharp that they dug in to my back. his claws were sharper than a cats claws and was quite painfull. well i finaly go him off my back and was walking him in my yard and he jumps on a tree and starts to climb it so im trying to get him downso im out there for almost an hour and my neibor lady is out side walking up to me very slowly and ask me what i am doing so i tell her im trying to get my lizard to come down. she says what! my lizard this is iggy he is a 4 foot long iguana she says oh and all this time i been waching you i thought you were talking to a tree.
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Nature tells us that homosexuality exists.  Are humans animals?  Are there homosexual humans?  Ergo...?\n\nThe fact that you have not quoted sources is of no consequence to me -- I am willing to take at face value that perhaps the cattle and lizards were setting domination patterns. I am curious as to how the motives of the lizards were determined to be "to humilate"?\n\nty kinney, of course, makes terrfic sense about the differences beetween humans and other animals and would worth be re-reading.  \n\nOf course, without any applicable citation, which would seem to be fairly easy to find, your insistence on the behavior of cattle weakens the argument, particularly when you assert such detail as "the male/male behavior documented never culminates it penetration! therefore it is not sexual in nature."  From your reaction to other posts, I assume you're after some sort of penetration?\n\nI must point out that an insistence on male/male penetration omits other non-dominance behaviors practiced by other animal species, such as courtship. \n\nTREE SWALLOWS:  Full cloacal contact has been observed by Wilson and Bull in  male Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor), complete with  the “ticking” vocalizations which are apparently reserved for  heterosexual copulations in Tree Swallows.  They also note that dominance behaior among Tree Swallows is very different.\n\nLIZARD: A. carolinensis engage in both homosexual courtship and copulation -- with one male exhibiting the male behavior in courting being the mounter and the male exhibiting the female courtship behavior being mounted. Previous studies (Noble and Bradley in 1937) dismissed this as hierarchical behavior, but more recent observations (Cooper, 1977, and Sigmund, 1987) show a more thorough understanding of A. carolinensis society, including polygamy and consistent homosexual behavior in the absence of dominant males.\n\nBISON: Courtship, mounting, and full anal penetration between bulls is common among American bison. My Lakota brothers and sisters call them pte winkte —pte =bison and winkte is the word for two-spirit, their description of the transgendered  in their Nation.\n\nFEMALE CATTLE:  Mounting of female cattle in heat by other cows is common among domesticated cattle.  (Obviously, since no marital aids have been documented, no actual penetration occured.)  The same has not been observed among wild cattle in a study by Queensland College in Australia.  Although stress was cited by the observers, they also admitted the possibility of domestication as a factor -- so perhaps civilization figures into it.\n\nBONOBOS: Barbara Fruth and Gottfried Hohmann observed same-sex genital contacts in wild female bonobos.  They have already been mentioned here, I just thought I would give the citation, even though no penetration happened.\n\nZOO ANIMALS: The penguins, koalas, rabbits and others that have been documented as exhibiting homosexual behaviors have most often come from zoos or domesticated situations.  This does not necessarily indicate a corrupted or aberrant social system, but (Occam's Razor) they can be more easily observed.\n\nHYENAS: Actually, Ploss and Bartels have seen hyenas licking each other's genitals.  Hyenas are of particular interest in this discussion because, according the Bestiary of Barnabus, hyenas were believed to have predominantly homosexual sex, and were associated with homosexuals.  This view was strongly held in the time of Augustine, who was a zealot advocate of conversion.
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It is a crime. Though maybe not as serious as mistreating a human, it's still bad if someone will intentionally hurt a basically defenseless animal. These ppl are the ones who often hurt people next.\n*In China dogs and cats can be considered food.*