Adult males have a visible row of preanal pores that females lack or show only faintly
This row of pores sits just above the vent and is used, along with hemipenal bulges at the tail base, to visually sex adult leopard geckos from roughly six months of age onward.
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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.