Why is the tail of a lizard drops (8 pics + letter) Bashny.Net

Lizards eats most of the animals and birds.
As a result, they have to find ways to protect, helped by a special color, cautious behavior and speed of movement.
If this does not help, lizards shed their tail.
However, reset for the lizard's tail is not so simple.
Therefore, before that it assesses the degree of threat to her life.





Each lizard tail separates differently.
This process affects their size, speed, age and other factors.
In particular, the larger or older animals, and therefore slower, the more they lose their tail.
However, not every lizard has these abilities, as is commonly believed.
This process is not governed by reflexes and instincts of a lizard.
Control comes from the brain, so the first assessment of the situation carried lizard.



The tail of a lizard is the backbone of a number of areas, connected by a cartilage, ligaments and muscles.
Each zone has the ability to burst.
In the event of threats (eg, if you grab the lizard by the tail), the muscles and ligaments in the immediate area are broken, the tail separated.
Sometimes the separation of the tail occurs more crudely - vertebral fractures, however, in that case it is very difficult to recover the loss of a lizard.



When you break the muscles themselves are reduced.
Cut off the tail and continued to decline and move, thereby diverting the attention, while the lizard itself escapes from danger.
Of course, nature has taken care to preserve the population of lizards.



Iguanas, as representatives of the suborder of lizards also have such powers, however, the majority of them only have the opportunity at a young age, then they have already lost it.
When the tail grows back, it may have a slightly different color, as well as the junction can cut eye, it is somewhat narrowed.
Nature took care of that lizard's tail was brighter than the main part of the body.
Its color may be red, yellow, purple, striped, speckled, etc.



The vertebrae in the place of separation is lost forever and can not be reversed, unlike most of the tail, in their place are formed cartilage.
Therefore, every time gap occurs higher and higher, that is, close to your head, so if this lizard is too often get into dangerous situations, the case can be fatal.
The tail of a small lizard grows about a month.
In larger - up to one year.



Lizards, losing a tail, forced to adapt to a new life.
They are not as nimble and quick, lose the ability to swim and to procreate.
The energy of the many lizards it is in the tail, because there they tend to accumulate fat and vitamins, so after the separation of the tail, the lizard at risk of dying from lack of nutrients.
Therefore, some lizards trying to find your tail and eat to regain strength.



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