– – Well, the Geico Gecko has a great Cockney accent, and the SoBe beverages lizards have dance moves to make the late Michael Jackson proud…but scientists for years have been fascinated with the gecko, because of his uncanny ability to climb the smoothest of surfaces and hang there, by a single toe if necessary.
A Pennsylvania professor has found that a gecko’s toes have millions of very small hairs, each one-tenth the width of a human hair. At the end of each hair are hundreds of saucerlike structures called spatula. Weak forces of attraction hold each spatula to a surface, and the combined force from millions of hairs create a powerful bond that enables the gecko to stick to nearly anything.
Hopes are to commercialize on the gecko’s adhesive ability …a good bet, since the gecko has been commercial gold, already! 
– – Destination Truth in a recent new episode featured Chernobyl but had a secondary story on about the Sal’awa, described by highly emotional eyewitnesses as a canine monster about the size of a dog but with hind legs that are somewhat longer than the front legs, a large muzzle that resembles that of a hyena, and imposing sharp teeth.
— Now this is just plain wrong! A cat dubbed “Sticky” was wrapped in duct tape head to tail and dumped in a paper bag in a neighbor’s yard for 12 hours. The 19-year-old Philadelphia man who did this was described as having, “a lot of issues.” He faces animal cruelty charges, a fine, and jail time.
— Is it an omen?– – A large arachnid appeared on Pope Benedict XVI’s white robes as he addressed politicians and diplomats in Prague on Saturday afternoon (see speck on shoulder)! The Pope didn’t seem to notice at first, but the not so itsy-bitsy spider made journalists flinch as the arachnid inched towards Benedict’s neck!
– -A crocodile could be the ultimate Mafia enforcer, a hit-reptile, if you will.- -Well, one Mafia crime boss appears to have employed such cold-blooded muscle in his operation! 
– -This picture is a mild example of dog fighting; most are bloody and sickening.–How are dog fighters adapting to increasing law enforcement against their despicable activities?–By going mobile, in a practice called “trunking”…
– – A 19-1/2 foot, 103 pound squid was netted by accident in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana in late July, with the photos just released. Researchers were trawling 1,500 feet below the gulf’s surface to study dietary habits of sperm whales when the squid was brought to the surface, not surviving the rapid ascent through the changing depths.
– –PETA was talking about taking over a former prison in Virginia and turning it into a Chicken Empathy Museum. – – I swear that I am not making this up! Visitors to the museum would be served faux chicken drumsticks and other vegetarian items, and among other things, could wear weighted 
-“Inside every man there are two people–one good, one beast.”
FOXSYLVANIA 
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