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	Mauritius upland forest day gecko - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Mauritius upland forest day gecko feeds on insects and nectar.
		The Mauritius upland forest day gecko' is rather shy because it is heavily predated by different bird species.
		The Mauritius lowland forest day gecko is an egg gluer and often a colony nester.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mauritius_upland_forest_day_gecko (416 words)

	Mauritius lowland forest day gecko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mauritius lowland forest day gecko feeds on insects and nectar.
		The Mauritius lowland forest day gecko is rather shy because it is heavily predated by different bird species.
		The Mauritius lowland forest day gecko is an egg gluer and often a colony nester.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauritius_lowland_forest_day_gecko (439 words)

	Phelsuma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Day geckos are small lizards in the genus Phelsuma in the Gecko family.
		Day geckos inhabit the islands of the south-east part of the Indian Ocean.
		Day geckos should be provided with sliced fruit, such as papaya, or a small amount of banana a few times a week.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phelsuma (619 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Phelsuma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Day geckos are small lizards of the genus Phelsuma in the Gecko family.
		Day geckos inhabit the islands of the south-east part of the Indian Ocean.
		The main distribution of day geckos is Madagascar which may also be the origin of the genus.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Phelsuma (3510 words)

	Mauritius lowland forest day gecko - Phelsuma guimbeaui guimbeaui
		While the two outside stripes are a more or less continuous line, the center strip forms a characteristic loop on the neck and dissolves into a dotted line on the back which continues also on the tail.
		It was found so far only in the mountain forests of the Macchabée-Bel Ombre and Les Mares biosphere reserves.
		Clearly cooler temperatures and very frequent precipitation are characteristic of these mountain forests.
	www.encyclopedia.mu /Nature/Fauna/Reptiles/Phelsuma_guimbeaui.htm (455 words)

	Charliesbirdblog: Ile aux Aigrettes, Mauritius, 12 Nov 2005
		Mauritius is part of the Mascarene Islands, an archipelago formed some 8 -10 million years ago in a series of undersea volcanic eruptions as the African plate drifted over the Réunion hotspot.
		Blanketed in lowland ebony forest, with thicker, taller wet forest covering the slopes of the many steep gorges and hillsides, the island had numerous endemic forest birds and plants.
		The destruction of native forest on a massive scale, the persecution of pigeons by people and the introduction of a variety of exotic predators have all contributed to the decline of the Pink Pigeon.
	www.charliesbirdblog.com /~charlie/MRU12nov05/MRU12nov05.html (2055 words)

	Day Gecko
		The name 'gecko' probably derives from the calls of these lizards, produced by clicking their broad tongue against the roof of their mouth.
		Day Geckos are from Madagascar, various neighboring island groups, and the coast of East Africa.
		Because it is difficult to teach geckos to drink water from a dish, their enclosure is periodically misted and they take water from the leaves.
	www.honoluluzoo.org /day_gecko.htm (375 words)

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		From egg-laying to hatching 77 days at 28 degrees C. 0.0.2 hatched during 1988.
		1992 PPJZ 0.0.2 hatched in 1992, 60 - 75 days incubation.
		Geckos are housed in a colony situation with one male and several females.
	www.pondturtle.com /blizb.html (5311 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Mascarene forests (AT0120)
		The Mascarene Islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues are situated in a line along a submerged ridge, the Seychelles-Mauritius Plateau, located 640 to 800 km east of Madagascar in the western Indian Ocean.
		The rainfall is sufficient to permit the development of tropical moist forest on the windward side of the island and tropical dry forest on the leeward side.
		The vegetation of the islands was originally quite diverse, ranging from coastal wetlands and swamp forests, through lowland dry forest, rain forest, and palm savanna to montane deciduous forests and finally (on Réunion) to heathland vegetation types on the highest mountains.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0120_full.html (2213 words)

	Bibliography
		Loveridge, A. (1941): New geckos (Phelsuma and Lygodactylus), snake (Leptotyphlops), and frog (Phrynobatrachus) from Pemba Island, East Africa Proc.
		Mertens, R. (1963): The geckos of the genus Phelsuma on Mauritius and adjacent islands Bull.
		Raxworthy, C J and R A Nussbaum (1994): A partial systematic revision of the day geckos, Phelsuma Gray, of Madagascar (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 112:321-335.
	www.phelsumania.com /public/bibliography.html (7603 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Mascarene forests (AT0120) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In the lowlands of Mauritius, the rainfall varies from 890 mm on the leeward side of the island, to 1905 mm on the southeast coast.
		The birds confined to Mauritius are: Mauritius cuckoo-shrike (Coracina typical, VU), Mauritius kestrel (Falco punctatus, VU), Mauritius fody (Foudia rubra, CR), Mauritius bulbul (Hypsipetes olivaceus, VU), Mauritius parakeet (Psittacula eques, CR), Mauritius olive white-eye (Zosterops chloronothus), and pink pigeon (Columba mayeri, EN).
		In the lowlands, forest habitat is largely restricted to the steep banks of rivers.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0120_full.html (2213 words)

	Welcome to www.falcons.co.uk
		1985 The Predation Ecology of the Mauritius Kestrel Falco punctatus.
		Firstly the forest can be described in terms of indigenous forest types which are the result of the ecotype and which have probably been the same for many thousands of years.
		Since man came to Mauritius the forest has been systematically logged, cleared, and infested with exotic species; it is no longer in its primeval structural state, although the majority of the original species are still present.
	www.falcons.co.uk /?id=27 (13061 words)

	The Mauritian Wildlife Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The ornate day gecko (phelsuma ornata) and the Bouton’s skink (Cryptoblepharus boutoni) are widespread on the islands around Mauritius and on mainland Mauritius.
		In the medium term (2004 – 2020) it may be possible to begin to establish shade-tolerant hardwood species formerly present on the island and viable populations of carefully selected endangered plant species of lowland Mauritius in suitable habitats on Round Island.
		Wild populations of threatened geckos, skinks and snakes now found only on Round Island could be translocated to other rat-free islands and tortoise species could be introduced to Round Island to restore the ecological role of the extinct species.
	www.mauritian-wildlife.org /round.htm (1220 words)

	IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG)/links to other websites
		We used indices of hunting effort (days hunted) and goat population density (goats killed/days hunted), to investigate trends in the goat population in response to management during the period 1961-1999.
		The objective was to select forest birds known to persist with introduced predators on the mainland elsewhere in the North Island, because despite predator control at Wenderholm, small numbers of some pests could be expected to occur.
		However, its importance for geckos on islands was apparently masked by reduced gecko abundance in the presence of introduced predators, and suppression of host plants by introduced herbivores.
	www.issg.org /ConfAbstracts.html (19678 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vegetation The natural vegetation of much of the island is palm savannah, and early descriptions of the vegetation relate that both screw pine Pandanus vandermeershcii and fan palm Latania loddigesii were common in ravines, with two other palms, the bottle palm Hyophorbe lagenicaulis and hurricane palm Dictyosperma album, also in abundance.
		Bullock, D.J. The ecology and conservation of reptiles on Round Island and Gunner's Quoin, Mauritius.
		Vaughan, R.E. and Wiehe, P.O. Studies on the vegetation of Mauritius.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0157p.htm (1744 words)

	Are They Really Extinct?: Science News Online, March 16, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		That day, Harvard botanist Merritt Lyndon Fernald collected the plant's low-growing, round-leaved tufts in two places along the edge of the Chickahominy River in Virginia.
		The little flowerpecker lived in forests on the island of Cebu, but as land clearing accelerated in the past century, biologists began to fret over the bird's fate.
		Ornithologists had searched lowland forests for it during the two previous decades but failed to find it.
	www.sciencenews.org /20020316/bob8.asp (2422 words)

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		This vegetation was similar to that of north-west Mauritius, in the coastal regions.
		However, the vegetation has been greatly reduced by rabbits and goats, and few natural specimens survive of the endemic bottle palm and hurricane palm though the species are now found naturally only on Round Island, and only in cultivation on the mainland.
		Of greater concern than the poaching itself is the possible accidental introduction of some exotic animal such as a house gecko, snake, mouse, rat or shrew by the trespassers.
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0157p.htm (1744 words)

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