Juvenile leopard geckos are typically fed daily, while adults are commonly fed every other day
Feeding frequency and portion size scale down as a gecko matures and its growth rate slows, which helps prevent obesity in adult geckos that no longer need juvenile-level calorie intake.
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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.