Ah, I’m an elf from the woodlands (rainy part of PNW), not familiar with them personally.

I did once trek east toward Mordor and freeze up and slowly retreat from an aggregated rattlesnake in the badlands… can’t say I ever saw a gecko though.

… But I have seen a good number of newts back home. They can be … mildly neurotoxic, but they thankfully tend to stay in their bogs and such.