Geckos cling best to, and prefer to use, rough surfaces.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fitness is strongly related to locomotor performance, which can determine success in foraging, mating, and other critical activities. Locomotor performance on different substrates is likely to require different abilities, so we expect alignment between species' locomotor performance and the habitats they use in nature. In addition, we expect behaviour to enhance performance, such that animals will use substrates on which they perform well.

Methods

We examined the associations between habitat selection and performance in three species of Oedura geckos, including two specialists, (one arboreal, and one saxicolous), and one generalist species, which used both rocks and trees. First, we described their microhabitat use in nature (tree and rock type) for these s

SUBMITTER: Pillai R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7566132 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature