Corucia zebrata

These tree skinks are native to the Solomon Islands.  They are also called monkey-tailed skinks and green tree skinks.  They are the largest of the skinks attaining lengths of 70 cm (28 inches) and have an unusually heavy body for an arboreal lizard.  Tree skinks are generally slow-moving, crepuscular animals; but they can move very quickly when they want to.  Their sharp claws and muscular prehensile tails are very important to their climbing ability.  Feeding on fruit and other vegetation they are the only skinks that are entirely herbivorous.  They give birth to a single, very large, living youngster.

  Eublepharis macularius

Leopard geckos are also known as spotted fat-tailed geckos.  Leopard Geckos reach a size of 8 to 10 inches.  Most adults are yellow with dark brown spots.  Juveniles are generally banded yellow and dark brown which fades into the spotted pattern as the gecko matures.

 Leopard geckos are found in Iran, Afghanistan, Western India and Pakistan.  Most of today's captive bred leopard geckos are descendants of geckos imported from Pakistan.  They reside in rocky deserts and arid grasslands.  Leopard geckos are nocturnal, sheltering themselves during the day beneath rocks and in burrows.  They are very hardy animals and quite common.  The fat tail stores food reserves and can be shed in defense and then regenerated.  They lay clutches of 2 eggs five to six times a year.  Unlike other geckos, the leopard gecko and his relatives have moveable eyelids and lack the toe pads which allow other geckos to climb vertical surfaces.  Leopard Geckos are carnivorous.  In captivity they eat crickets, mealworms, earthworms, grasshoppers, pinkies, and supplements of calcium and multivitamins.