A healthy adult leopard gecko typically passes a formed stool roughly every one to three days depending on feeding frequency and temperature
Normal frequency varies with how often and how much the individual gecko is fed, plus the enclosure's effect on digestion speed — tracking what's typical for a specific gecko is more useful than comparing to a single universal number.
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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.