In most lizards that sacrifice the tail in this manner breakage occurs only when the tail is grasped with sufficient force but some animals such as some species of geckos can perform true autotomy throwing off the tail when sufficiently stressed such as when attacked by ants. The technical term for this ability to drop the tail is caudal autotomy.
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