#psychedelic rock gecko

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A psychedelic rock gecko (Cnemaspis psychedelica), an endangered species first described by scientists in 2010 and named for its colorful markings.

Image courtesy of Thomas Ziegler.

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I'm borrrrred so here's a some stuff about myself!

My name is Jon.

I have a yellow gecko named Scully (like from the X Files), a tarantula named Alice Cooper (shes 16!) a tabby named Mrs. Chonk (she's food-obsessed and on a diet), and two ferrets named Benny and Marty :-)

Here's da Chonk

In my free time I like to get high and draw crazy shit with markers. I also journal. Though I have pretty bad carpal tunnel so these only happen in short bursts. I love retro videogames but the same applies here lol. I do more watching than playing these days. Atari, NES, SNES, SEGA installments, PS1, and arcade machines are an on-and-off fixation of mine.

I'm a language enthusiast. I used to be fluent in day-to-day Spanish but I haven't gotten to speak it in years so it's awfully rusty now </3 soy hispano y hablo mejor el spanglish :P I can read Spanish just fine. My #1 target language of interest is Japanese. I just got done with an Arabic class. Earlier this year I learned some ASL on the fly to communicate with a coworker, & took a Korean hangeul class (I somehow found that harder than Arabic).

I love many kinds of rock, metal, punk, new wave, alt, and experimental music. Lately I've been into dark trap, especially Ghostemane and Grim Salvo. Generally speaking, my favorite band is probably Black Sabbath (70s era). My fav solo artist is David Bowie.

Obviously, I love Star Trek. I've been a trekkie for ten years now. I started with next gen but TOS quickly became my favorite.

Some of my favorite books include Star Trek: The Motion Picture (ofc), The Lord of the Rings, Interview With The Vampire, and The Dead Zone (I like a lot of Stephen King). I'm currently reading a psychedelic fantasy series known as the Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny. So far I'm loving it.

That's all for now 🫡

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...Here to ask about that "cambodian psychedelic rock pre khmer rouge." 👀 Deets? Recs?

I should have known someone would notice that tag...

Several years ago I stumbled upon a glorious Spotify playlist of Cambodian psychedelic and otherwise alternative rock from the 60s/70s. I artist-surf a lot, so I can't remember how I found it, but I got hooked. Since then I've listened to Dengue Fever quite a bit, an active US based Cambodian band, and Kampot Playboys, also active now.

And a real fucking lovely hard rock gem: Drakkar. They were active before Khmer Rouge, three of them survived and they reunited in 2011. That's amazing. So many, seriously so fucking many people were killed during the Khmer Rouge regime, but some of these guys made it. One of them is still touring with a Drakkar lineup, as far as I know.

The Cambodian music scene was really thriving in the 60s and 70s. New impulses were routinely brought in because there was a strong US military presence, and the Cambodians ran with it and made it their own. Same thing happened in Vietnam, I believe, but I haven't dived into 60s/70s Vietnamese rock (yet. Or Laotian). The psychedelic genre was really popular, possibly more so than in the West, with bands like Les Kantaouiilles really taking off. Sadly I haven't been able to dig up a song by them, as an example.

But to be fair, I didn't throw a ton of time at research now because I'm not gonna write a full article, Medium has done it for me (complete with a good Spotify playlist).

There's a compilation album from 1996, Cambodian Rocks, with the biggest and not necessarily psychedelic names, and there's a documentary about Cambodian rock, Don't Think I've Forgotten. I haven't been able to watch that yet, may end up buying the DVD, sigh.

(I'd love to go back to Pnomh Penh some time and catch some gigs. I've bar hopped there, but none of the places I went to had live music)

(On a small Vietnamese island there's a gecko species called the psychedelic rock gecko. I love that.)

(And just now I noticed a Soundcloud playlist of underground Ukrainian techno, so I have another rabbit hole to visit)

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you'll have to click through to see the psychedelic rock gecko. I'm assuming that this species enjoys listening to psychedelic rock.

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San Antonio Zoo breeds endangered psychedelic rock gecko

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San Antonio Zoo breeds endangered psychedelic rock gecko

This batch of lizards also stood out for another reason. It is the first time an accredited institution in the United States has successfully bred the reptiles. The Zoological Association of America recognized the Alamo City’s zoo with an award for “Excellence in Breeding.” San Antonio Zoo won a national award from the Zoological Association […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/p9VZj #ReptileNews

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psychedelic rock gecko

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Protecting the Brilliant Psychedelic Rock Gecko

It’s got orange feet and an orange tail; a blue-grey body; and a lime green head. The psychedelic rock gecko (Cnemaspis psychedelica) , a small reptile native to only one island smalls off the coast of southern Vietnam, is endangered.

It was only described for the first time in scientific literature in 2010, but it has already made a splash in the pet trade. Online offers of live psychedelic rock geckoes and their eggs have driven these animals close to extinction. From 2013 to 2015, there were at least 21 different online ads for the colorful creature—mostly from Russia, but also a few from Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic, and the United States, according to a study earlier this year by Mark Auliya at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Auliya says he’s also seen young geckos being offered for sale as captive-bred, even though there are no known captive breeding facilities of these geckos.

To make matters worse, psychedelic rock geckos are really picky about where they live. They prefer granite outcrops surrounded by dense forest and a leaf-covered floor. But many of these granite formations are now being literally blasted away to make room for the construction of roads. Plus, they’re really slow to reproduce. All these factors combine to make them extra-sensitive to overcollection.

“The bright colors and endemicity of this species trigger international demand,” Auyliya says. “Any collecting must be considered detrimental to the long-term survival of the species.”

There are only about 500 to 700 left.

Today at the CITES conference, the geckos got some much needed help. It was added to CITES Appendix I, meaning that all international, commercial trade in the species is banned. The European Union and Vietnam put forward the proposal, which says, “ the discovery and description of the species could lead to its extinction due to potential over-collection for the international pet trade.” The proposal passed by a two-thirds majority and was approved by the plenary on Tuesday.

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guava jelly

I tasted guava jelly today and it reminded me of being six years old, dancing in tutu’s yard on the slanted lawn underneath the canopy of the seed pod tree. I had a giant red bubble wand that was really just a plastic stick with knotted fabric looped through it. Tutu would make bubble solution out of dish soap and water and magic, and I would be out there for hours trying to make donuts around myself, twirling around and around in a bright floral dress. I think I only briefly succeeded once in encapsulating myself in an oily, undulating ring. 

The softly fragrant air was so mild, yet humid and thick. The native birds a chaotically synchronized cacophony of melodies continuously in the background. We went to the beach in the early mornings, and by the afternoon my bright blonde hair was freshly scrubbed and tucked behind my ears. We would sit and watch the sunset together every night, like moths to a flame as we tried to avert our eyes from the glorious orb slowly sinking into the dark, glittering ocean. Before dinner my grandfather would pick plumerias from our tree for the women, and we would adorn our hair. 

One of my grandfather’s hands was disfigured when he was a child. He had gotten his hand stuck in the oven or the dishwasher - I can’t remember which - and the base of his thumb was permanently swollen which made it stick out at a strange angle. He was a wonderful man, very patient and gentle. We would take long walks on the beach and look at every single thing in the most luxurious detail. The patterns on rocks, the shells washed up on the shore, the shape of leaves, the movements of a gecko, the way colors shifted during sunset. He knew a lot about the world, and took great care to answer every single question I asked him, even if it was very complicated. 

He would print out the coordinates for the international space station off of the internet, and some nights we would hike out to the park behind their house with his telescope. I loved laying there on the sweet smelling grass after we had spotted it, watching the tiny speck of light tracking slowly yet quickly across the sky. There are people up there, he told me, people just like you and me, up in space. Looking down at Earth at the people laying on their backs, looking up at them. 

I was a very fearful child, but he had a way of explaining things to me that made me less afraid. Once he took me out to the coral reef on a boogie board with a plexiglass window on it so we could look at fish. I was so scared, cowering on the board, petrified to dip a single toe in the water lest it got eaten by a shark. His descriptions coupled with the psychedelic whirlwind of movement and electricity of the colors enticed me slowly into the water. In the end I had to be coerced back to shore with the promise of a guava coconut shave ice from the corner store.

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Psychedelic Rock Gecko - Cnemaspis psychedelica

Cnemaspis psychedelica (Gekkonidae) is a colorful species of gecko endemic to Hon Khoai Island in southern Vietnam, just described in 2010. 

The Psychedelic Rock Gecko is the most uniquely colored of all southeast Asian Cnemaspis in that both sexes and all age classes have bright orange forelimbs, forelegs, hands and feet; a bright orange tail; a dense, yellow reticulum on the neck overlying thick, black, longitudinal lines; and a blue-gray to light purple trunk bearing yellow transverse bars on bright-orange flanks.

Reference: [1]

Photo credit: Grismer et al. (2010) | Locality: Hon Khoai Island, Ngoc Hien District, Ca Mau Province, Vietnam in Rach Gia Bay 18 km off the southern tip of Point Can Mau.

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San Antonio Zoo breeds endangered psychedelic rock gecko

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/iesG1

San Antonio Zoo breeds endangered psychedelic rock gecko

This batch of lizards also stood out for another reason. It is the first time an accredited institution in the United States has successfully bred the reptiles. The Zoological Association of America recognized the Alamo City’s zoo with an award for “Excellence in Breeding.” San Antonio Zoo won a national award from the Zoological Association […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/iesG1 #ReptileNews