A veterinarian got multiple calls from the hospital but when she answered, no one was there. She later discovered a gecko on the touch screen of an office phone — making calls by tapping its feet.

After discovering the reptile was the one behind the calls, the animal hospital offered it a job Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

If you have never been prank-called by a lizard, you probably don't live in Hawaii. Dr. Claire Simeone, the director of the Kei Kai Ola hospital for Hawaiian monk seals, definitely does. Earlier this ...

Employees at the Ke Kai Ola Marine Mammal Center in Hawaii were receiving mysterious calls last week. Only it wasn't a glitch with their phone system. It was caused by a gecko. The hospital's director ...

Veterinarian and seal expert Claire Simeone was just about to settle down and enjoy her lunch when her cellphone rang. Work was calling, and as director of the Marine Mammal Center's Ke Kai Ola ...

If you got incessant phone calls last week from a hospital that cares for Hawaiian monk seals, you were butt-dialed. Or, more specifically, foot-dialed. By a gecko. Marine mammal veterinarian Claire ...

Prank calling has never been this cold-blooded. A veterinarian at a Hawaii marine animal hospital was perplexed by an onslaught of mystery phone calls, until she found the scaly fiend behind the ...

"I had no idea that a gecko would be heavy enough to work the touch screen," she said. "Every time he shifted his foot, he would call somebody else on our recent call list." Geckos, found on every ...

HONOLULU — If you got incessant phone calls last week from a hospital that cares for Hawaiian monk seals, you were butt-dialed. Or, more specifically, foot-dialed. By a gecko. Marine mammal ...

A full advertisement call in the tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) is made up of two phases. The first phase consists of 2-3 successive rattles of increasing intensity. The second phase contains a series of 4 ...