Gecko species is amazing, acrobatic they appear everywhere. By what I understand much like the lizard, will shed the tail when escaping danger, which grows back. Rather lose a limb than a life! Witnessed male gecko fights in the house where one will drop his tail off and scurry away.

Should you have some time this is an interesting photographic portfolio online: http://www.tyroneping.co.za/geckos/hemidactylus-mabouia/