Blue Tailed Day Geckos with Dr. Travis Hagey

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Back at what seems like the dawn of time (i.e., two months ago when the kids were still at school), Clara was working on a pollinator project for her second grade class. Clara chose the blue-tailed day gecko. But when she started researching it, she found that there was almost no information out there about them!

Luckily, we discovered the Skype a Scientist program, where we were connected to Travis Hagey. Dr. Hagey is an expert on day geckos (though he has not yet studied the blue tailed day gecko) and he taught us a lot about these amazing animals – like that they can drop and regrow their tails, that they probable traveled on the side of ... something (a log?) to get to the island they live on now, and why that commercial Gecko isn’t really super accurate.

We learned a lot from Dr. Hagey, and had a super good time too. We hope you will as well!

As always, we love to hear from you! Email as [email protected] or tweet us @coolanimalspod.

Thanks to Andrew of Ear Snacks for our theme music!

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0:00.0	Way, way back when, back in what seems like another world sometimes, back before the coronavirus
0:05.3	really hit us here and back when Clara was still in school, so March, Clara was working
0:11.7	on a pollinator project for her second grade class.
0:14.4	Clara chose the blue-tailed day gecko for her pollinator, but when she started researching
0:19.0	it, she found that there was almost no information at all about them. Luckily, we discovered the Skype A Scientist program, which
0:25.0	we've told you about a bunch before. It's such a great program. I'll put a link in the show
0:28.2	notes. But through that program, we connected to Dr. Travis Hagee. Dr. Hagee is an expert on
0:33.7	day geckos, though he hasn't yet had the opportunity to study the blue-tail day gecko.
0:37.8	We hope he gets that chance. And he taught us so much about these amazing animals,
0:42.0	like that they can drop and regrow their tails, that they probably traveled a really long
0:46.7	way stuck to the side of something, maybe a piece of wood, to get to the island where they live on now,
0:52.0	and why that commercial gecko isn't really super
0:55.0	accurate, other than that geckos can't actually talk, unfortunately.
0:59.0	Anyway, we learned a lot from Dr. Hagey, and we had a really good time.
1:03.0	It was just a really fun and engaging conversation.
1:06.0	We hope that you have fun listening to and that you learn a lot.
1:08.0	We will be back soon with the new episode.
1:10.0	Thanks as
1:10.9	always for listening.
1:18.3	How's it going? Good. How are you doing? Thanks so much for speaking with us. So just to give
1:23.2	you a little bit of background, Clara was working on a pollinator project at school before school got canceled, and she had
1:30.5	chosen the Blue Tail Day Gecko, and then we were also planning on doing a podcast episode about
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