Your answer might be that both cockroach and gecko give some people the creeps.  That’s why such people might lump these two animals as “pests“.  Can you name another similarity? It has to do with their ability to disappear under ledges. Despite the fact that one is an arthropod (with exoskeleton) and the other one a vertebrate (with endoskeleton), both of these animals play their disappearing trick in a strangely similar way. The secret has been uncovered. Watch this video and pay particular attention to the hind legs…

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