{"id":363,"date":"2012-03-06T17:32:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T17:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/?p=363"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:23:06","slug":"leaf-tailed-gecko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/leaf-tailed-gecko","title":{"rendered":"Leaf-Tailed Gecko"},"content":{"rendered":"

.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moth-flat,<\/p>\n

flecks and speckles<\/p>\n

so exact<\/p>\n

all along it,<\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n

as if the<\/p>\n

mosses that<\/p>\n

it’s on<\/p>\n

lie upon it,<\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n

the branch’s<\/p>\n

echo —<\/p>\n

a leaf-tailed<\/p>\n

gecko.<\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n

Uroplatus henkeli – <\/em>Henkel’s leaf-tailed geckos have markings identical to the bark on which they lie. A flap of skin around their bodies breaks up their outlines and makes them even more cryptic. They are classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.<\/span><\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This poem is in my book Animal Magic, which is available from:<\/p>\n

IRON Press<\/a> and\u00a0Amazon<\/a> and bookshops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. Moth-flat, flecks and speckles so exact all along it, . as if the mosses that it’s on lie upon it, . the branch’s echo — a leaf-tailed gecko. . Uroplatus henkeli – Henkel’s leaf-tailed geckos have markings identical to the bark on which they lie. A flap of skin around their bodies breaks up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[26,31,32,33,182,183,184,185],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shape-poems","tag-the","tag-on","tag-as","tag-if","tag-mosses","tag-lie","tag-flecks","tag-exact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}