At the cooler end of the viable incubation range, eggs can take upward of 80-90 days to hatch
Incubation duration runs inversely with temperature — warmer incubation speeds development and shortens time to hatching, while cooler incubation extends it, alongside its separate, better-known effect on hatchling sex.
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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.