Juveniles are sometimes started in a smaller, simpler enclosure before moving to full adult housing
A smaller space with easy-to-find hides and food can help a young gecko settle in and feed reliably, though many keepers now house juveniles straight into a full-sized enclosure with extra hides instead.
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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.