Many people who have stayed in the countryside know that geckos are natural enemies of mosquitoes, and from the appearance, there are many kinds of geckos, mostly different colors. Worldwide, there are more than 950 species of geckos. In China, geckos are also one of the "five poisons", which can't help but make many people wonder, geckos in the face of danger, often choose to break the tail to survive, such a timid creature, how can it be compared with the other four poisons?
Geckos are relatively small, although they look more like lizards, look particularly cute, climb the wall very fast, often just spotted geckos, in the blink of an eye to find that it is about to burrow into the hole. The secret of the gecko's speed of climbing the wall lies in its claws, which have nearly 1 billion fine hairs that are invisible to the naked eye, and it is the existence of these fine hairs that makes the gecko climb the wall particularly fast.
Geckos have lived on Earth for more than 50 million years and can be seen in many parts of the world, but are more common in the Gobi Desert. Although it looks very scary and makes a hissing sound when encountering danger, most people still hate it, after all, the gecko's guts are too small, and when it breaks its tail to survive, the broken tail on the ground will continue to twist to attract people's attention, and the broken tail can grow quickly, which is very magical.
In the "five poisons", the other four are discolored, after all, most of these animals are highly poisonous and easy to attack humans, while geckos have never been. The reason why geckos are considered poisonous is that most of the geckos eat poisonous insects, so the ancients believed that the gecko's body was toxic, and it may also be toxic in its urine, and the toxicity is not lower than the other four poisons, in fact, this understanding is wrong, the gecko does not have a poisonous gland, and there is no way to release poison.
Geckos carry bacteria, and when people come into contact with urine, or eat food contaminated by geckos, they can cause food poisoning, or symptoms such as redness and swelling of the skin, but these problems are not large. In Chinese medicine, the gecko is also a medicinal herb, like other poisons, can be used as a medicinal material, which is very likely, and is also one of the reasons why the gecko is listed as one of the five poisons, but there is no need to be particularly afraid of this animal, which is now rarely seen.
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