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Malagasy fady may have kept new gecko from extinction
A newly-described species of gecko may have been saved from extinction by local fady – traditional taboos or cultural prohibitions – connected to the few places in which it lives. An international team of biologists has described and named the nocturnal gecko, with mottled brown skin and cream stripes, the Paragehyra tsaranoro, after discovering it in tiny patches of…
