Aeluroscalabotes felinus
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The cat gecko (Aeluroscalabotes felinus) is a species of gecko found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia and Thailand. It is the only species within the genus Aeluroscalabotes. It is commonly called the cat gecko because of its habit of curling up with its tail around itself when it sleeps, similar to a cat.
The cat gecko is a lightly built gecko, typically red-brown in color with white spots on its body, and solid white under its chin, and sometimes to the belly. Some specimens have brown blotching along the back. It is considered to be one of the more primitive geckos, and is physically quite similar in body structure to the few fossils of early geckos which have been discovered. They can grow to approximately 18 cm (7 inches), with males being smaller than females.
Semi-arboreal and preferring cool, humid, montane rainforest habitats, the cat gecko is primarily nocturnal and insectivorous, consuming a wide variety of small insects and other arthropods. The species has been redescribed by several different taxonomists, leading to some early confusion in its classification, but its distinctly different morphological characteristics... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
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No species of the same family or order lives in Kinabalu Park, so these are its closest relatives here: other reptiles.
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Cat Gecko sighting in Kinabalu Park on a given day, based on 36 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 16th most-seen of the 69 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Cat Gecko in Kinabalu Park on a given day, against under 5% in March, May and August, the lowest months.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Cat Gecko sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kinabalu Park, in our data
Kinabalu Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Cat Gecko sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cat Gecko is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Kinabalu Park (36 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
