Female leopard geckos cycle and produce eggs on a seasonal basis even in captivity, driven partly by day length and temperature cues
This is why females kept alone can still lay clutches of infertile eggs through a season, and why their calcium and calorie needs rise during that period independent of whether a 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.