A veterinarian got multiple calls from the hospital but when she answered, no one was there. She later discovered a gecko on the touch screen of an office phone — making calls by tapping its feet.

After discovering the reptile was the one behind the calls, the animal hospital offered it a job Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

Prank calling has never been this cold-blooded. A veterinarian at a Hawaii marine animal hospital was perplexed by an onslaught of mystery phone calls, until she found the scaly fiend behind the ...

If you got incessant phone calls last week from a hospital that cares for Hawaiian monk seals, you were butt-dialed. Or, more specifically, foot-dialed. By a gecko. Marine mammal veterinarian Claire ...

Employees at the Ke Kai Ola Marine Mammal Center in Hawaii were receiving mysterious calls last week. Only it wasn't a glitch with their phone system. It was caused by a gecko. The hospital's director ...

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The calls last week were coming from inside the building. >> Read more trending news Actually, there were “a bazillion” calls coming from the Ke Kai Ola Marine Mammal Center in Hawaii. One call after ...

Veterinarian and seal expert Claire Simeone was just about to settle down and enjoy her lunch when her cellphone rang. Work was calling, and as director of the Marine Mammal Center's Ke Kai Ola ...

Something mysterious happened at a monk seal hospital in Kailua-Kona this week, leaving many people confused. Dr. Claire Simeone of Ke Kai Ola Marine Mammal Center was on her lunch break when she ...

Good morning. I'm David Greene. Claire Simeone, a veterinarian in Hawaii, got a call from the animal hospital. She answered, no one was there; then another call, same thing. Seemed like some kind of ...