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Satanic leaf-tailed geckos mimic rotting dried leaves perfectly

Veined flattened tails and notched bodies blend with forest foliage.

Endemic to Madagascar forests, satanic leaf-tailed geckos feature flattened tail structures complete with notched edges and microscopic leaf-vein patterns. During daylight hours, they hang motionless upside down from branches, looking identical to decaying brown tree leaves.

Satanic leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) Ranomafana 1 — Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · licence · source

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Veined flattened tails and notched bodies blend with forest foliage. The figure is taken from San Diego Zoo, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a animals fact?: Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.