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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 131410" data-attributes="member: 27677"><p>I have a great video along those lines that I must make into a movie so I can post it. A couple of years ago I went looking for scorpions, found none but I did find lots of centipedes and recorded data for a study on colour morphs in a certain region. Very interesting the abrupt change in colour as the sand turned from vivid red to yellow/brown in an area perhaps 10km in diameter, changing from 90% "tiger" form with vivid red legs rather than orange and 10% brown morph with pale yellow legs on red sand to 90% brown 10% tiger in less than 5km, but I digress. Lifting rocks I came across quite a few Barking Geckos, on one occasion there were a pair, the larger ran under the nearby rock but the small one wouldn't move so I went to shoo it along so I could put the rock back down and it latched onto my finger! Its entire head was smaller than my fingernail but it latched on and wouldn't let go! "I'll bite ya legs off!!!" I had to admire the little guy! (while holding a camera in one hand and a 20kg slab of rock leaning against my shins!)</p></blockquote><p></p>