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j zhou.
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k kong.
k khor.
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l lim.
m ong.
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m ong.
r tan.
s leong.
s tan.
s cho.
s yung.
t koh.
v ching.
yy tay.
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So, last week, my sister and I unknowingly set a lizard trap in our house. Lo and behold, when we awoke from our slumber, we found a dead lizard right there! And what better opportunity than this to study how to trap a lizard, and have a some insight into their body's defense mechanism. After all, if you haven't learned how to trap lizards in your house, you haven't truly roughed it out before.

If these little critters make you feel squeamish, avert your eyes now! You've been warned! The rest of you are now fair game.



Pictured above is a (dead) baby lizard stuck on the stick side of a strip of scotch tape in the kitchen bin. For those of you (i.e. none of you) wondering what business any piece of scotch tape would have hanging around in the kitchen bin, it found its way there courtesy of my sister after she opened a new can of Redondo luxury cream wafers.

And so, ladies and gentlemen - this is the very basics of how you trap a lizard. Place some food at the centre of a sticky pad from which the lizard will be unable to remove its body, and just wait through the night. Of course, you have to ensure that this trap is the lizard's sole food source for the night, otherwise it might well go to the other location instead, and evade your trap.

Usually, this food source would be the kitchen bin - where our not-so-dear baby lizard was unfortunate enough to fall prey to some silly stray scotch tape. Oh wells, it's good for me anyway. I've been seeing the little bugger scuttling around late at night for quite a while now.

Now, if you take a closer look at the picture (well, if you dare to), you can see the clear severing of the lizard's tail - the result of its defense mechanism of dropping its tail when under attack, so as to distract the attacker. Clearly this lizard had no clue that there was no active assailant for it to distract, and that dropping its tail wouldn't have helped it escape from the sinister clutches of scotch tape. Except that it perhaps decreased the surface area, and thus the force required, for the lizard to detach itself from the scotch tape...

I'm quite curious as to why the tail looks so much lighter in colour as compared to the rest of the body though. Perhaps it is that there isn't any blood circulation there any longer? But if the blood did leave the tail, then we would see it outside the tail, wouldn't we? Ah well. If someone can explain it to me, that'd be nice (:

So there you have it. Hope you weren't just about to have lunch or dinner or something of the sort!

AMEN;
2:06 am

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