We call the first species just "salamanquesa", its like the common house gecko in Spain. The second we call "salamanquesa aberroncho" and is a little more rare and makes those weird chirping noises I showed you in the other thread. I find those much cooler though, and have been considering maybe keeping one as a pet next time I find one
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The correlation between their presence and humidity/altitude sounds about right, yes. I'm really into camping and hiking personally and never saw salamanquesas on my travels in say Montardo or Núria (mountains in my area), although cities like Valladolid or Madrid which are very much inland and dry (an old Castilian saying goes like "nueve meses de invierno, tres de infierno", because it is quite miserable and cold in winter and excessively hot in summer
) are ""only"" 600-800m above sea level so geckos can be found. Although, in my experience, only really the Tarentola mauritanica not the Med gecko.
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