Lizards have a brilliant way of escaping from predators – detachable tails. It sounds crazy, but that is what they are. A lizard’s tail has a special weak link. If it is unlucky enough to be caught by the tail, this link snaps. The lizard escapes and the predator is left with just a short piece of tail in its jaws. The stump of tail left does not take long to grow back to its correct length, and as nature intends it to snap, it does not cause the lizard any real harm. One kind of lizard called skink goes a stage further. It has a tail which thrashes around when it is pulled away from the rest of the body. This can be really confusing for a predator, which often, mistakes the bit of tail for a living creature. And while it is puzzling that out, the skink has bags of time to make a run for it.
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