Wild N. shaei

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Nephrurus

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G'day,

I uploaded some more photos of Nephrurus shaei that we've been finding doing some surveys in the North Kimberley. They were lurking around large sandstone outcrops, but occasionally we'd find one in some sandy woodland. It was interesting to see the young ones being quite agile on the rock faces, sometimes scaling near vertical surfaces.

N. shaei Photo Gallery by Henry Cook at pbase.com

All the best,

Henry.
 
oli

oli

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Awesome pics, they look very plump and healthy, some look gravid too. Were there a lot of them in the area? You have the one pic holding a bunch of them making it look like they were all over the place
 
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Nephrurus

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I've recieved a PM asking for more details/observations of wild shaei, so I thought I'd just respond here.

We mainly find them assicated with large sandstone boulders in sandy woodland. Typically they are found close to the rock and occasionally I'll find their shed skins amongst the rocks. I suspect they live in higher densities in these sites, but it may be they are much easier to find around the rock (more open habitat). That photo of the 5 animals in our hands was half the number we'd found (10) in about 20minutes in an area 100meters by 50meters. There were mature males, gravid females and juveniles/hatchlings.

They certainly occur in plain old sandy woodland. Several times I've found them in the backs of deep overhangs and shallow caves- they probably have a burrow right in the back. Once a juvenile shaei was dug out of a burrow in sandy woodland when someone was digging a toilet hole. :coverlaugh:

They probably eat alot of geckos like Heternotia binoei and Lucasium stenodactylum as well as insects.

Hope this helps.
 
Nicolas

Nicolas

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Thanks a lot for thoses great pictures and informations, we do not often have such fields reports and how you said in an old post, geckos do not only live in shoes boxes :D;-);-)

Have you any landscape pictures of the geckos territory ?
 
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mad gecko keeper

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Their nothing special really boring in my opinion. Look like a cross between an asper and amyae when i seen them a few years ago when i was up the top end.
 
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Riverside Reptiles

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mad gecko keeper said:
Their nothing special really boring in my opinion. Look like a cross between an asper and amyae when i seen them a few years ago when i was up the top end.
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People tend to take for granted what they have available. We can't get them at all here in the US. So even just seeing pics of them is special for us.
 
oli

oli

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Both asper and amyae are pretty cool geckos, I have a hard time accepting how you can say they are boring? That's like saying a combination of a ferrari and a lamborghini is a slow car. That kind of statement can only come from an unhappy individual.
 
red-ink

red-ink

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mad gecko keeper said:
Their nothing special really boring in my opinion. Look like a cross between an asper and amyae when i seen them a few years ago when i was up the top end.
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Just out of curiousity mate, do you find all nephs boring or just the N. shaei. Which gecko do you find interesting, i personally think the rarity of N. shaei in captivity even in OZ is enough to raise interest. I mean even most zoos don't have them.
 
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