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Geckos have eye caps to protect their eyes and keep them moist. The eye caps help prevent debris from getting into their eyes and also aid in shedding their old skin.

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Do gargoyle geckos have eyelids?

Nope - if they need to 'clean' their eyeballs - they use their tongue to lick the surface. Crested geckos have a clear membrane covering the eye, this membrane is a clear, transparent eye contact more or less. it stops dirt, oxygen, water, substrates etc.. from entering the eye. when something external touches the membrane, they will lick their eye in order to remove anything. The Crested geckos come from the Diplodactylinae subfamily under the Genera Rhacodactylus. Geckos of the Eublepharinae Subfamily are known as "eye lid" geckos all have eye lids. These consist of the: Leopard gecko (E. macularius), the fat tailed gecko (E. Hemitheconyx) etc.. When sleeping, resting, swallowing, and of course blink, their eyelids will close.


What is the geckos transparent eye cover called?

This is called the third eye lid. It will sweep the eye from time to time to clean it. It is also called a nictating membrane.


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Why do leopard geckos sometimes have squinting eyes?

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When does a lizard sleep?

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Lizards aren't geckos, but geckos are lizards


How do geckos shed their skin and what is the purpose of this process?

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no geckos are not poison's


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