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Does anyone know how far Leaf Tails can leap?
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Uroplatus sikorae 1.1
Uroplatus henkeli
Ball python
Hogg Island Boa Constrictor
Several species of tarantula

not very far in a direction parallel to the ground... they can fall a long ways though...
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Ben

Interesting.....I would have thought they could leap far too..Yeah they an drop alright....

One of mine took a 5.5ft leap tonight..I was like [bleep]...he was totally fine...I just didn't catch him focusing his gaze quick enough this time.
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Uroplatus sikorae 1.1
Uroplatus henkeli
Ball python
Hogg Island Boa Constrictor
Several species of tarantula

HaHa.. yeah, we all know the "stare"...

"I'm gonna leap from here to that wall 8 feet away"...

Not so much...

In my experience (granted its not field experience) generally they are all very clumsy jumpers... The "sticky" feet save their a$$ many times though...
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Ben

Mine leaps pretty skillfuly. I once saw him make a jump from the front glass in the vivarium, to the back wall, landing only a few inches below his starting height. That was about 2'.

The funny story about his leaping though, was when I first got him, and I was handeling him. I was so enthraled by his sticky feet on my hands and the way he could balence on the tip of one of my fingers, that I didn't notice him doing the "stare"... at my nose! the next thing I knew, I had a gecko on my face.

Jared
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With great power, comes great responsibility.
-Ben Parker

at a reptile show where i was trying to sell my lineds. got a couple very itchy claw marks on my nose from it as well.

even though they might not be acrobatic jumpers, a few of my recent acquisitions are avid jumpers. two recent henkeli purchases are both very restless jumpers when i have to handle them, and my female mossy has got to be the worst. she hops around like a friggin frog.

Sometimes I feel badly when I mist down their tank, as one henk may not feel like getting s shower and try to leap out of the way only to fall to the bottom.

I feel responsible for the fall, I see them go

KURPLUNK, all the time
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PHEve / Eve

pretty good toes though
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Uroplatus sikorae 1.1
Uroplatus henkeli
Ball python
Hogg Island Boa Constrictor
Several species of tarantula