Telling tails: Selective pressures acting on investment in lizard tails
Caudal autotomy is a common defense mechanism in lizards, where the animal may lose part or all of its tail to escape entrapment. Lizards show an immense variety in the degree of investment in a tail (i.e., length) across species, with tails of some species up to three or four times body length (sno...
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The University of Chicago Press
2013
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| Online Access: | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/673864 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49591 |