It stores fat in its tail and, like the leopard gecko, has movable eyelids.
From Fat-tail Gecko
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.
From Fat-tail Gecko
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.
From Fat-tail Gecko
It regrows its skin very quickly after shedding patches of it to escape a predator's grip, a defence quite separate from dropping its tail.
From Madagascar Day Gecko
It is a day-active gecko, unusual in a mostly nocturnal group, and for that reason it has a round pupil instead of a vertical one.
From Madagascar Day Gecko
It climbs glass thanks to the lamellae on its toes, covered in millions of microscopic setae that adhere by Van der Waals forces.
From Madagascar Day Gecko
Its defence is pure theatre: it rises up on all four legs fully extended, arches its back, gapes and rocks from side to side giving high-pitched barks, a display out of all proportion for an animal twelve centimetres long.
From Rough Knob-tail
Its bulbous tail stores fat and ends in a small spherical knob; if it loses it, the one it grows back is shorter and a different shape.
From Rough Knob-tail

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