Usually whenever Geckos are calling someone this much, they're just trying to sell some insurance.
Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and seal expert at Ke Kai Ola Hawaiian Monk Seal Hospital in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, says just as she was sitting down to enjoy her lunch, she began receiving a series of mysterious phone calls from the same number.
Simeone says when the phone rang last week, she was expecting one of her staff-members on the other end of the line with a seal-related emergency or question. However, it wasn't a work-related call, in fact, so far as Simeone could tell, no one was on the other end of the line when she picked up the phone.
Over the next 15 minutes, the phone rang at least nine times, each call completely silent, and all of which were coming from the same number.
“The first thing I thought was that there was some kind of an emergency because I started getting call after call in really rapid succession,” she told the Washington Post.
Simeone said she began to grow worried there was some kind of emergency on the other end of the calls, and decided to investigate the source.
When she began receiving the calls, she thought some kind of emergency had befallen one of the four endangered Hawaiian monk seals that are located there. She abandoned her lunch and raced back to the hospital to find out what was prompting the calls.
Of course, after racing to the hospital fearing the worst, she was confused to see the rest of her staff relaxing and having their lunch on the patio.
“I was like, ‘Guys, what’s up? What’s wrong?’ ” she asked her staff. She told them about the mysterious series of phone calls she had received from them and they told her, “‘Well, nobody’s inside.’”
That's when Simeone's phone rang once again, deepening the mystery.
That's when other people began calling the hospital back, asking staff why they were being called "incessantly," Simeone wrote.
That's when Simeone and her staff decided there must be something wrong with their phone system and decided to call in the experts from Hawaiian Telecom, their phone service provider.
The company confirmed that the hospital was sending out a "bazillion calls" from one line inside the hospital, which led Simeone to believe they had a glitchy phone on their hands.
After a brief search through the hospital and checking all the phones in the main office, Simeone moved to the laboratory where they discovered a tiny gecko was sitting on the phone's touchscreen, making calls with his "tiny, gecko feet."
And while the Gecko may not have been able to sell any insurance, Simeone says she was happy to offer the gecko a job at the animal hospital.
“Well he’s definitely not in telecommunications,” Simeone told the newspaper. “He is one of our guest experience specialists now.”