How these geckos eat scorpions | Science News

New high-speed video details how usually mild-mannered geckos shake and incapacitate their venomous prey. Watch western banded geckos demolish some scorpions. Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/ar....ticle/gecko-western-

CREDITS

Story & production
Helen Thompson

Video & images
SDSU Clark Lab

Music
“Western Streets” by Kevin MacLeod/Flimmusic.io
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.....io/song/4617-western
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Citation
M. Whitford et al. Shaking things up: the unique feeding behaviour of western banded geckos when consuming scorpions. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. Volume 135, March 2022, p. 533. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab167.