Handling
Handling isn’t recommended, but is not unheard of. Giant day geckos have very sensitive skin. So sensitive that if you grab your day gecko and it doesn’t feel like being held, and tries to wiggle out, you can hurt your reptile. These geckos get large scars from attempted handling.
Read more about this topic: Phelsuma Madagascariensis Grandis
Famous quotes containing the word handling:
“That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.”
—Stella Chess (20th century)
“It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“For a novel addressed by a man to men and women of full age; which attempts to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, derision and disaster, that may press in the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity; to tell, without a mincing of words, of a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit; and to point the tragedy of unfulfilled aims, I am not aware that there is anything in the handling to which exception can be taken.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)