These guys really do have flat, leaf-like tails that mimic the local vegetation.

Giant leaf-tailed gecko
Uroplatus fimbriatus

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Some gecko species are the way into mimicry as a defense to predation.

Bibron's gecko
Chondrodactylus bibronii

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According to the info panel this species eats invertebrates, fruit...and other geckos.

New Caledonian giant gecko
Rhacodactylus leachianus

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Out of all the geckos at the National Geographic Museum exhibit, these guys were the most photogenic.

Giant day gecko
Phelsuma madagascariensis grandis

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