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Stop anthropomorphizing animals. Reptiles can't tell that you "love" them. The most some of them can do is trust you and see you as a provider of food and heat.
Geckos, no matter what you think, aren't that intelligent. They may be able to become accustomed to being handled and recognizing you as no threat, but that's it pretty much.
Intelligent lizards are mostly tegus, monitors, larger skinks, and iguanas. From my own experience, tegus seem to be the most intelligent. At least at the level of a cat. Mine definitely seems to "enjoy" attention from me and doesn't mind being held, but I assume it's mostly a response from him seeing me as a vector for food. He knows that when I'm in the room, there is a good chance that he will get food, so he begins to paw at the glass to get me to hold him.
Intelligent snakes include the big pythons, Burms and Retics (especially retics), cobras (King Cobras are said to be one of the most intelligent reptiles out there), vipers, and Scrub/Amethystine Pythons. Most colubrids are on the lower-end of the intelligence spectrum in snakes.
Amphibians are possibly the least intelligent of herps. I've never encountered one that had any inclination towards human interaction.
Turtles/tortoises are something I'm not as familiar with, but my Box Turtle seems to be somewhat more intelligent than most small to medium sized lizards. I assume they have a fairly developed brain that increases in capability/capacity as you go up to larger species.
So basically, the larger lizards and snakes tend to be more intelligent and seem to be more keen on interacting with humans if they're raised properly. And more evolved reptiles like vipers are also fairly intelligent, probably capable of tolerating humans if they weren't venomous.
But love? Love is an abstract concept that's mostly attributed to higher mammals, like Primates. Some shit like whales too.
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