A single female can lay up to 8–10 clutches of two eggs in one breeding season
Breeding season typically runs spring through summer. Because egg-laying is metabolically demanding regardless of fertilisation, females need extra calcium and food during this period even if no male is present.
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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.