Lizard With Cut Off Tail Royalty-Free Stock Photography

Lizard with tail lost due to autotomy.Autotomy or self amputation is the behaviour whereby an animal sheds or discards one or more of its own appendages usually as a self-defense mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape. The lost body part may be regenerated later.Picture taken on Therasia island across Santorini Caldera,Greece