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'Project Cnemaspis' was my final year research project where I studied the different egg laying strategies of the endemic gecko Cnemaspis kandiana inside rock caves at Gannoruwa forest reserve in Kandy. It's usually known to lay one or two eggs at a time. But under some conditions it is seen to use communal nesting surfaces like the ones shown below, which is a little-known strategy.

 

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Somaweera, R. & De Silva, M. 2006. Communal egg-laying of the endemic Kandyan day-gecko (Cnemaspis kandiana) in rock caves at Gannoruwa forest reserve, Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the Peradeniya University Research Session, Sri Lanka, November 30, 2006 : 125

 

 

                                                                     

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