Why Gecko expensive price?

Giant gecko found weighing 64 kg which adolescents in the border forests in East Kalimantan and Malaysia are reportedly sold USD 179 billion.

Geckos, animals, reptiles, whose voice often appears on the home, garden, building or even the forest was now more expensive price. Four-footed gecko-like lizard was more often found in homes and are now increasingly easy to obtain in the market for various purposes.

What makes geckos expensive? It was not because of her voice that often sounds unexpectedly and repeatedly for a period. But more to the contents of the gecko itself, which must be automated to take advantage of slain or disabled.

Great house gecko or lizard Gekko gecko named latin known in several different places call for example tekek or gecko, (Java), tokok (Sunda), and the Tokay gecko or tucktoo (UK).

House gecko has a large nodule on his back a different color and this is one of the distinguishing features with the small lizard. Various color from bluish gray to brownish in color, with flecks of red brick to orange.

Gecko belly gray or yellowish and whitish-blue tail also has six rows piebald nodules. Feet in radius, so there is good suction pads stick to the wall or tree.

Gecko become expensive and sought after people allegedly because they can heal people living with HIV or AIDS. Deadly disease that attacks the body's immune system and there is no medical remedy that is able to cope. Thus, a traditional herb of geckos trusted as the most efficacious for that.

Part tongue lizard and its blood reportedly contain substances that can fight against the HIV virus. Gecko who has a property that weighs more than 3 ounces alive.

In addition to the tongue, supposedly bile geckos are also efficacious for the treatment of people who have AIDS. Here's news that makes people have to buy an expensive price for saved his life.

In the bile gecko, also contain anti-tumor and cancer compounds that might boost immunity.

While overall meat has been popular since the ancestors can cure various diseases itch. Many people testified that itchy skin disease can be cured with a baked or fried gecko.

Prices vary depending on weight gecko and gecko age itself. In some areas such as Jakarta, Batam, Banjarmasin, Makassar, Pontianak, Surabaya, Solo and other towns had no specific location gecko sales.

Jatinegara Market, Jakarta, there is also an animal market which provides a variety of endangered species, with a cheap price.

For the gecko with a weight of less than 1.5 ounces is still a range of USD 200 thousand. But when a grown up about 2 ounces and was old then it could reach Rp 5 million.

If lucky, the seller gecko with a weight of more than three ounces or four ounces could be sold USD 100 million. Will be much more expensive if it has reached a kilogram and have direct buyers from Korea, China or Malaysia can cost more than Rp 200 million.

Giant gecko ever found in the interior of Borneo have weighed up to 64 kilograms which was then sold USD 179 billion by Korean businessmen through the people of Malaysia.

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