Madagascar Giant Day Gecko (left) Lined Leaf-tail Gecko (right)
(Left)Phelsuma grandis (Right) Uroplatus lineatus(Gekkonidae)
Distribution: Found in northwestern Madagascar. Habitat: Nocturnal and arboreal, living in the bamboo forests of the mountains.
Remarks: The sex of geckos, like that of many reptiles, is determined by the temperature at which the eggs are incubated. Low temperatures produce females, higher ones males. Below 25 °C few eggs will hatch and those that do will be female. Between 25.5 °C and 28 °C hatchlings will be females or mostly females, 29 °C to 30°F both sexes occur, 30.5 °C to 33 °C mostly males or males, and above 33.5 °C few eggs hatch but they are males.
Rainforest Madagascar MA08 geckos
2-11-15
Madagascar Giant Day Gecko (left) Lined Leaf-tail Gecko (right)
(Left)Phelsuma grandis (Right) Uroplatus lineatus(Gekkonidae)
Distribution: Found in northwestern Madagascar. Habitat: Nocturnal and arboreal, living in the bamboo forests of the mountains.
Remarks: The sex of geckos, like that of many reptiles, is determined by the temperature at which the eggs are incubated. Low temperatures produce females, higher ones males. Below 25 °C few eggs will hatch and those that do will be female. Between 25.5 °C and 28 °C hatchlings will be females or mostly females, 29 °C to 30°F both sexes occur, 30.5 °C to 33 °C mostly males or males, and above 33.5 °C few eggs hatch but they are males.
Rainforest Madagascar MA08 geckos
2-11-15