The man, in his 30s, woke up from his snooze with severe itching and discomfort
He went to hospital where a stunned doctor pulled the gecko from his head
The gecko did not have a tail when it was rescued and medics have not found it
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Animals find some of the weirdest places to make homes. They are constantly seen exploring places to stay safe, all thanks to humans who have made the world a concrete jungle. On the other side, humans are also paying a heavy price for this as there are many cases of insects finding their homes in the warm opening of humans like the nostril and the ear canals! This sounds disturbing, right? But the fact is, off late there have been many reports of creepy things finding their hiding spots in these places.
Check out the case of a man who had a squirming lizard found in his ear while its tail was missing.
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The man, from Guangzhou, in southern China, had settled down for a snooze when he suddenly woke up with severe itching.
He could feel the little reptile 'squirming' inside his head and initially thought he had been invaded by a cockroach.
The patient, who is in his 30s, went to see Doctor Tu Bo, of the First Affiliated Hospital at Jinan University, to get the creature removed.
The stunned medic shined a light into the ear as he grabbed at the gecko with a pair of tweezers.
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They removed the lizard from his ear by using pliers, but could not locate the tail of the lizard. It is common for lizards to lose their tales and the doctors are hoping that the tail was lost outside before it entered the man’s ear. The lizard is known to grow back its tail, and this characteristic of the reptile is actually a defence mechanism called ‘autotomy’ under which they drop their tails when they feel threatened by a predator.
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While this man’s super-intimate gecko encounter left no permanent damage, had it pieced his eardrum and damaged the ossicular chain, he would have been left with hearing loss and sense of dizziness.
So far in 2017, we have reported on all manner of human-orifice-animal encounters, including the Guangzhou man who shoved an eel up his ass back in April and that shocking video released back in March showing a woman boldly insert an eel where no fish had gone before