While traveling down Interstate 5 a Jeep going North cut off a semi-truck loaded with 5,000 tan day geckos. The Container the geckos were traveling in was ripped open and thrown across the road, only a few were harmed, the rest, they scattered to trees along a nearby river. Some of them were adjacent to agricultural land, almond orchards, and some were adjacent to industrialism in the area. Part of the geckos ended up nesting in trees on the east side of the river, by crossing the diversion dam. Some of the geckos nested in trees on the west side; here they were exposed to dioxins, and heavy metal materials with carcinogenic properties. The others on the east side were exposed to herbicides like round-up. The east side after a few years or so of living in its new habitat, and reproducing several times, mutated. They had very soft slimy skin and had moved from the trees to the ground where they could keep cool. However the geckos on the industrial side of the river had also mutated. They now had thick scaly dry skin. This helped them live through the 115 degree summers in their new habitat. Also it helped repel and survive the industrial chemicals, they were living in. Eventually the soft skin geckos, started to die off. The heat in the summer was way too much for them to handle, and they were not good enough in the water, to be able to cool off so they dehydrated and eventually went extinct. These mutations in the certain geckos were not favorable. As for the hard shell gecko it was thriving and was reproducing at a very fast rate. They were now all up and down the valley. They had acquired a new physical characteristic though. They formed a type of camouflage. They were able to change any color they desired, this was caused by a chemical they had been introduced to. So now the geckos were all over the place but because they were so well hidden no one could see them unless you caught them in the middle of changing.
