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Tail Do lizards' tails fall off when scared
Do lizards' tails fall off when scared
Lizards drop their tails as a defense mechanism when they feel threatened by a predator. The loss of the tail is intended to distract and confuse the ...
Tail Do lizards feel pain when they lose their tails
Do lizards feel pain when they lose their tails
Nope. When a lizard chooses to pop its tail off, it does so at what are called fracture planes, and they're literally built to break apart without ble...
Tail Do lizards have bones in their tails
Do lizards have bones in their tails
Regenerated lizard tail skeletons are almost completely cartilaginous. Vertebrae of the original tail are generated as a single, unsegmented cartilage...
Tail Lizard tail regeneration mechanism
Lizard tail regeneration mechanism
Immediately after tail loss, the tail stump ends in a terminal tail vertebra and involves a severed spinal cord. After 7-10 days, wound epidermis migr...