Compressing skulls?

Jheuloh

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A few days ago, when I was feeding my leopard gecko, Khalil, I did some slight fumbling with his heated-den to chase a superworm out of there, and the opening to it had notably decreased in size. At first, he tried to dig out an opening (he lives on a play-sand/zoo med clay sand mixture), but he quickly decided that digging it out wouldn't be worth it. His skull actually seemed to compress as he went in the opening; the top part of his skull seemed to squeeze in order for him to fit through the hole.:main_robin:

Has anyone else here ever seen their gecko do something like that? (Unexpectedly fit through small holes?) Is it known if Leopard geckos are actually capable of compressing their skulls like what I seem to have observed? (Not totally sure of what I had observed, but I do know for sure his head didn't fit in that hole evenly.) :main_laugh:
 

Jheuloh

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I didn't see the head compress but two of my geckos have squeezed through holes smaller than their heads.

So they can go through holes smaller than their heads! I wasn't hallucinating at all! :main_laugh:
 

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