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Gargoyle geckos are primarily nocturnal. [1] [3] [8] They are an arboreal species, making their home in scrub forests. The female lays two eggs per clutch, which hatch 60 to 90 days after they are laid. The female can lay eight or nine clutches per year. On rare occasions, gargoyle geckos can reproduce asexually via parthenogenesis.
African Fat-tailed Gecko. African fat-tailed gecko. ... Gargoyle gecko. Gargoyle Gecko. These loveable reptiles get their name because of the bumps on their head that look like horns. But despite ...
Lesser rough-snouted giant gecko, Rhacodactylus trachycephalus; Willi's giant gecko, Rhacodactylus willihenkeli [2] A revision of the giant geckos of New Caldonia found weak support for inclusion of some taxa allied to this genus, and these have been assigned to new combinations: [3] Correlophus ciliatus, crested gecko; formerly R. ciliatus
A white-headed dwarf gecko with tail lost due to autotomy. Autotomy (from the Greek auto-, "self-" and tome, "severing", αὐτοτομία) or 'self-amputation', is the behaviour whereby an animal sheds or discards an appendage, [1] usually as a self-defense mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape.
An Ohio-based pet gecko breeder recently shared some footage that isn’t for the fainthearted, featuring a “dropped” gecko tail rolling around independently of the reptile’s body.Dennis ...
The lesser thorn-tailed gecko from Western Australia can shoot goo out of its tail. - Anders Zimmy/Natural History Museum. Nearly 1,000 new species were found across the globe in 2023, adding ...
The original tail has 6 distinct white banding patterns, with the band closest to the body forming a "V" shape. However, if the tail is lost, the white banding does not re-appear on the regrown tail. [1] Much of the body and tail is covered in small spines, with slightly larger spines appearing on the lateral sides of the lizard. Adult males ...
The generic name, Uroplatus, is a Latinization of two Greek words: "ourá" (οὐρά) meaning "tail" and "platys" (πλατύς) meaning "flat". Its specific name phantasticus is the Latin word for "imaginary", based upon the gecko's unique appearance, which led Belgian naturalist George Albert Boulenger to describe it as “mythical” in 1888.