| I could not assess at what point during the predation encounters the lizards employed autotomy. |
| Even the shedding of antlers by deer may be classified as an example of autotomy. |
| A feature which the skink shares with many other lizards is autotomy, that is the shedding of the tail in order to flee from the predator. |
| Through a process called autotomy, muscles can contract violently along the base of an appendage, breaking off the limb. |
| The nerve, however, is severed at the preformed autotomy breakage plane and the nerve stub retracts into the coxal stump. |
| 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. |
