I was at dinner a few nights ago and saw the cutest damn thing ever. It all started when the biggest grasshopper I have ever seen jumped on our table. Seriously, it must have been close to three inches (7 cm) long. He looked at us. We looked at him. We wondered what one does about the world's biggest grasshopper on an empty table. I think he would have stayed there forever in his uncontested reign, but he decided to hop (as grasshoppers tend to do), landing on the nearest wall.
That's when things got adorable. On the wall, there was a gecko hanging out (as there tends to be on walls in Cambodia). The gecko was perhaps slightly longer, but certainly not larger by volume, than the grasshopper. Even so, the gecko got the look on his face that says, "Dinner is served!" He started crawling toward his perceived prey.
Unfortunately, the grasshopper saw something shiny and promptly got his leg stuck in a speaker. But I really wanted to see how the little gecko planned to eat that grasshopper.
Maybe you just had to be there. Still, coolest gecko ever.
The following is an artist's representation of the gecko involved. Okay, it's a photo I took in Chiang Mai, but I don't have a recent one because geckos don't pose well.
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