Lizards have a variety of antipredator adaptations, including running and climbing, venom, camouflage, tail autotomy, and reflex bleeding. |
The division of a protozoan into two cells and the splitting of a worm into two halves may be regarded as cases of autotomy. |
Comparison of autotomy behavior induced in rats by various clinically used neurectomy methods. |
Most investigation into such an antipredatory benefit has focused on caudal autotomy in vertebrate taxa. |
I could not assess at what point during the predation encounters the lizards employed autotomy. |
This is perhaps because any injury between the tip of the meropodite and the point of autotomy invariably causes a breakage at the latter point. |