Fleming, Patricia A.; Verburgt, Luke; Scantlebury, Michael; Medger, Katarina; Bateman, Philip W.
(University of Chicago Press, 2009-09)
Many lizard species will shed their tail as a defensive response
(e.g., to escape a putative predator or aggressive conspecific).
This caudal autotomy incurs a number of costs as a result of
loss of the tail itself, ...