A gecko carried its mate by the neck in a bizarre lizard love bite.

Footage shows the creature clinging to the ceiling while biting another lizard's neck to carry it across the room in Nong Khai province, Thailand.

The lizard pair confused house owners as one of them appeared to be dead until it reached a pole and clung to it.

House owner Thitikorn Thepsen said: ‘It was so strange. I thought at first that they fought and the other lizard was eating its kill but then they looked friendly again when they were both clinging to the wall.'

The lizards were believed to be engaging in a ‘love bite' which is a behaviour observed among reptiles where they nip their partners lightly usually in the neck as part of a mating ritual.