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What kind of animal we have?
What kind of animal we have?
Occasionally, something makes in our flat a sound like hitting a hard ball against hard surface (it's rather laud). Not sure if geckos are capable? It sounds very different to what they normally produce. Cockroaches?
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Re: What kind of animal we have?
Oh good lord. It better not be them.x9200 wrote:Cockroaches?
Heavy-footed foreigners?

Squirrels?
Rats?
"A quokka is what would happen if there was an anime about kangaroos."
Imagine you have window blinds that you open up or close with a cord, and the cord have a plastic ball at its end. When wind blows the ball hits the window making roughly this kind of soundthe lynx wrote:You mean like a golf ball hitting a hard surface?
Sorry, just trying to relate to the sound you're describing...

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Trust me, cockroaches DO NOT make that sound. At most it would be hissing. But if it is really the cockroaches, book me over! This will be an awesome science moment for me!x9200 wrote:Imagine you have window blinds that you open up or close with a cord, and the cord have a plastic ball at its end. When wind blows the ball hits the window making roughly this kind of soundthe lynx wrote:You mean like a golf ball hitting a hard surface?
Sorry, just trying to relate to the sound you're describing...
OK so I get an idea of how the sound is like. Does the sound come singly or in quick rapping series? If it is the latter, I have a bad feeling it may be termites; a very bad termite infestation...
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You would know it if it were one of these little terrors. Their name is their noisy call. TOK-Kayyyy. The are only around 6 to 7 " long but their call can be heard from about half a klick away! I had one in my bedroom in the Viet Refugee Camp on P. Galang and it decided to announce itself around 3 am in the morning. Scared the crap outta me!
http://www.markoshea.info/images/timor% ... _gecko.jpg
http://www.markoshea.info/images/timor% ... _gecko.jpg
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Holy crap! I sure hope not it is one of those.sundaymorningstaple wrote:You would know it if it were one of these little terrors. Their name is their noisy call. TOK-Kayyyy. The are only around 6 to 7 " long but their call can be heard from about half a klick away! I had one in my bedroom in the Viet Refugee Camp on P. Galang and it decided to announce itself around 3 am in the morning. Scared the crap outta me!
http://www.markoshea.info/images/timor% ... _gecko.jpg
But there are many species of geckos and some of them are common in households (unless you live close to jungles).
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They are found here in Singapore as well, but not so often. You do see a lot of them looking like this though......
http://www.tokaygeckos.org/tokay-gecko-for-medicines
Apparently they are also used in TCM
http://www.tokaygeckos.org/tokay-gecko-for-medicines
Apparently they are also used in TCM
Last edited by sundaymorningstaple on Tue, 19 Jun 2012 1:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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