Geckos can break off their own tails.

壁虎可以折断自己的尾巴。

The experiment into the effect of weightlessness on reptiles' sexual reproduction is still continuing.

研究失重状态对壁虎性繁殖能力影响的实验仍在继续。

Next time, I'll tell you who the footsteps belonged to, and how Alice got so big she filled a whole house, and what happened when she kicked poor Bill the lizard up and out of the chimney.

下一回，我会告诉你们这阵脚步声是谁的，爱丽丝怎么变得这么大，把整座房子，还有当她把壁虎可怜的比尔从烟囱里踢出来的时候，发生什么。

Sometimes it's a picture of an animal, like a small gecko, sometimes it's words like 'I love you' or the name of a loved one.

有时是动物的图片，比如一只小壁虎，有时是像" 我爱你" 爱人的名字那样的文字。

Now, geckos a lot of times have eyelids but they don't close completely.

很多时候壁虎有眼睑，但是它们并没有完全闭上。

Or perhaps, Spider Man will one day be Gecko Man.

，蜘蛛人有一天将变成壁虎人。

What is a characteristic feature of flowers pollinated by geckos?

壁虎授粉的花有什么特点？

So our toes might not be nimble as a monkey's or as sticky as a gecko's, but without them, balancing on our feet would be tricky business.

所以我们的脚趾可能不会像猴子那样灵像壁虎那样粘人，但是如果没有它们的话，让脚保持平衡这件事情就会变得很困难。

Dr Full and his colleagues have since identified similar behaviour in other animals with hooklike toes that are good at escaping pursuit: geckos, for example.

Full博士和同事后来又发现其他具有类似特性的生物，它们同样具有钩状的脚趾并擅长逃离追杀，比如壁虎。

He has a rewarding job feeding the lizards at a local gecko breeder, but the night the paper was due, he was there till 10 p.m. cleaning cages.

他在当地一家壁虎饲养员那里有一份给蜥蜴喂食的有价值的工作，但是报纸到期的那天晚上，他在那里一直呆到晚上 10 点清理笼子。

A Russian experiment to study the sex lives of Geckoes in space has run into trouble after the satellite carrying the creatures suffered a malfunction.

由于卫星出现故障，研究壁虎在太空中性生的一项俄罗斯实验中断。

This lizard is the aptly named dwarf gecko, and this one has laid a couple of eggs down here in this gall on the tree.

这种蜥蜴有一个合适的名字：侏儒壁虎，这一只在这棵树上的瘿里产下几枚卵。

This ability to vocalize likely arose independently, multiple times, hundreds of millions of years ago-in frogs, mammals, geckos, and birds and crocodilians.

这种发声能力很可能在数亿年前独立且多次在青蛙、哺乳动物、壁虎、鸟类和鳄鱼身上产生。

Today we can manufacture structures that mimic the hairs of a gecko's foot.

今天我们能够造出模仿壁虎脚趾毛发的结构。

Each pinhole projects a separate, sharp image onto the geckos retina.

每个针孔将一个单独的清晰图像投射到壁虎视网膜上。

Scientists would love to create synthetic adhesives based on the gecko trick.

科学家们很乐意根据壁虎的这一特点合成粘合剂。

The researchers also tested whether a gecko could latch onto the coating with its notoriously sticky footpads.

科学家还做一项测验，看壁虎是否能够凭借它那著名的粘脚垫行走在上述涂层上。

The geckos can climb up walls. They can even hang upside down from a shiny surface.

使壁虎能爬上墙壁。壁虎甚至可以倒挂在光亮的表面上。

Even the famously adhesive feet of geckos usually can't get a grip.

就连壁虎有名的胶脚粘不上去。

This is George, the giant new Caledonia Gecko.

这是乔治，巨大的新喀里多尼亚壁虎。