Terry J

Terry J

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A Tiny Gecko Makes 'A Bazillion' Phone Calls From A Hawaii Animal Hospital

After Dr. Claire Simeone (@Claire_Simeone) received dozens of unexplained phone calls from her workplace in Kona, Hawaii, she discovered the culprit was a tiny gecko perched on the screen of a phone.

“Did anyone call me? No one did,” wrote Dr. Claire Simeone, the hospital director of the Ke Kai Ola Marine Mammal Center, on Twitter. “Meanwhile, several other people call the hospital, asking WHY WE ARE CALLING THEM INCESSANTLY?”

Simeone says that Hawaiian Telecom, the center’s phone company, confirmed that “a bazillion calls” were indeed coming from a single line inside the hospital and asked her to look around to find the problem phone.

When she finally found it, however, the issue wasn’t hardware or software, but footwear—that is, the toe pads on a tiny gold dust day gecko.


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