. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 7. p. 158 Asiatic Herpetological Research 1997. Figure 2. Teratoscincus roborowskii. half-grown indi- vidual, scouting from the entrance of its burrow (Tur- pan, 2235 h, 8 July 1992). all range during observations was °C. The wind varied from absent to fairly strong for short times, commonly blew from the north, and sometimes was noticeably warm. In the darkness, at distances of mostly approx. 10 m, gecko behavior was assessed from their returned eyeshine. Observation time totalled lO
. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 7. p. 158 Asiatic Herpetological Research 1997. Figure 2. Teratoscincus roborowskii. half-grown indi- vidual, scouting from the entrance of its burrow (Tur- pan, 2235 h, 8 July 1992). all range during observations was °C. The wind varied from absent to fairly strong for short times, commonly blew from the north, and sometimes was noticeably warm. In the darkness, at distances of mostly approx. 10 m, gecko behavior was assessed from their returned eyeshine. Observation time totalled lOh 20' but as the torch became effective only at approx. 2210 h, the effective observation time approximated only 8h 20'. Observations. On each night, the earliest gecko was spotted 40-65 min after sunset, after a search of 10-60 min. Thereafter, the finding of each successive indi- vidual usually required min. One individual, caught at 231 Oh on with sand temperature °C and air temperature (1 cm) °C, had a rectal temperature of °C. Time budgets were calculated for the 11 animals observed (despite the vegetation) for > 90 sec and not suspected of having been affected by the observer (Table 1). Of 28 individuals discovered at a distance, only three were moving when spotted. This value of of the animals moving when discovered is close to the PTM calculated for the species (Table 1). Individual foraging behavior was highly variable but two extreme patterns appeared to be dominant: several animals remained stationary throughout an observation period of 10-15 min; others kept alternat- ing between standing and walking at intervals of 1-7 sec (rarely 60 sec). Two individuals (a half-grown individual spotted on at 2231 h and a subadult spotted on at 2327 h) were sitting with only their fore-parts out of the openings of their burrows (fig. 2). One retained this position for 36 min. then ran out and away (the other was disturbed by
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