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Noun Concept

Categories: Articles with short description, Webarchive template wayback links, Animal anatomy, Antipredator adaptations, Ethology

autotomy self amputation Autotome autotomic autotomize

Spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack WordNet 3.0

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Spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Autotomy or 'self-amputation', is the behaviour whereby an animal sheds or discards one or more of its own appendages, usually as a self-defense mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape. Wikipedia

Self-defense behavior in which an animal sheds body parts Wikidata

The act whereby an animal voluntarily loses a body part. OmegaWiki

The spontaneous removal of a limb, tail etc, especially by some invertebrates as a self-defense mechanism. Wiktionary

Invertebrate self-defense mechanism. Wiktionary (translation)

IS A

removal

anti-predator adaptation

amputation

HAS KIND

caudal autotomy

DERIVATION

autotomize