BIDEFORD, England, April 2 (UPI) — A woman in southwestern England was surprised when she discovered a gecko, a small lizard native to warmer climes, in the bottom of a bag of apples.
The gecko had survived a week in Wendy Newbury’s refrigerator, The Daily Telegraph reported. She did not notice it until she took the bag out of the refrigerator after the apples had been eaten.
“It then must have started warming up and he started moving around,” Newbury said. “He was such a sweet and amazing little thing and me and my husband, Brian, are both animal lovers so we didn’t want anything to happen to it.”
No one knows how the gecko got into the apples Newbury purchased at a Waitrose supermarket in Holworthy, near her home in Bideford, Devon. The apples were labeled as grown in Kent, but experts say the gecko probably came from Asia.
The Newburys took the gecko to Torbridge Veterinary Center, where staffers named it Gordon in honor of Gordon Gekko, hero of the movie “Wall Street.” The lizard is now being cared for by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, The Daily Telegraph reported.