Fat-tail Gecko

• GeneralIt stores fat in its tail and, like the leopard gecko, has movable eyelids.
• Its tail is a larder: it stores enough fat to survive weeks without eating, and if it loses it to a predator it grows back a shorter one of a different shape, losing all its reserves with it.
• Like the leopard gecko, it has movable eyelids and can blink, something most geckos cannot do because their eye is covered by a transparent scale.
• It is a heavily traded terrarium species, and a good share of the individuals circulating in Europe and North America still come from animals caught in the wild in Togo, Ghana and Benin.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (reptile)

Habitat and environment

Dry savannah, scrub, farmland and forest edges of West Africa

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

55 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

2 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemitheconyx_caudicinctus