Enrichment such as varied textures, safe climbing branches, and occasional layout changes can encourage more natural exploratory behaviour
While leopard geckos are largely ground-dwelling, offering low branches, rocks, and cork bark alongside standard hides gives more opportunities for natural investigative behaviour than a bare, static setup.
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Most active at dawn and dusk when temperatures in their native Pakistan and Afghanistan are ideal.
A widespread misconception is that the tail acts like a camel's hump storing water.
Autotomy — voluntary tail shedding — is a defence mechanism.
Unlike most gecko species which use van der Waals forces to climb smooth surfaces, leopard geckos have conventional claws.
The moveable eyelid is unusual among geckos.
Hold your gecko up to a light source and look through one ear opening — you can see light through the other side.