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  So you're officially deranged now?

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  @datarama @cocaine_owlbear @cstross @emenel @zzt Weird about tokay geckos because they're extremely visual. They certainly learn to recognize their keepers (or their favorite humans) quickly, and through glass.

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  @datarama @cocaine_owlbear @cstross @emenel @zzt Oh, my doctorate is in historical musicology which is, arguably at least, not strictly relevant here. My tokay gecko was exactly like your friend's. She loved hanging out with (or on) me, hated everybody else, especially my roommate. My theory is that he was mean to her; ditto for everybody else in the world. The gecko is never to blame. I had her for 29 years and was so upset when she died that I couldn't get another one.

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  @datarama @cocaine_owlbear @cstross @emenel @zzt This good: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-023-01751-8 It seems that females may be more self-aware than males. It's also a kind of lame study, as the experimenters themselves point out. Among other problems, the tests were conducted in the tokays' home where the environment was saturated with their own smells, and they didn't test the combo of mark (peppermint) + own scent that they felt was the stronges...

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  @sec_yote_agenda The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/los-angeles-birder-photographs-coyote-roadrunner/

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  Tastes just like chicken!

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  On the other hand ...

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  @tomjennings wiki says that native Americans used the melons for soap, which also tastes terrible.

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  @Lydie@tech.lgbt AI summary: I put my mouse in the microwave!!! and boom!!