Iguanas are also capable of loosing their tail autotomy for defense and it will regenerate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iguana Project] Reference

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They are also odd among salamanders in that some species can drop the tail as a predator-defence mechanism (properly called caudal autotomy), and in that some species have only four toes on the hindfeet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

Slow-worms are like many other squamates in being able to drop the tail voluntarily by contracting muscles (this is known as caudal autotomy), but they do this more than is usual, with most individuals having autotomised their tails several times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

Of course, autotomy wouldn't be much use if the animal didn't have regenerative abilities as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Kos] Reference

Such is the adaptive device -- more reflex than reflective -- which is called self-mutilation or autotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference

Passive modes of defence are as many and varied as are the active; one of the strangest and most inexplicable of these is that known as spontaneous amputation, technically termed autotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Side of Animals] Reference

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