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phenomena > biological phenomena > autotomy

PREFERRED TERM

Created: 2019-09-04T12:02:37

autotomy  

DEFINITION

  • 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. Some animals have the ability to regenerate the lost body part later.

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotomy

    Created: 8/8/22

    (en)

BROADER CONCEPT

RELATED CONCEPTS

SCOPE NOTE

  • Voluntary separation of a part of the body (en)

IN OTHER LANGUAGES

  • Created: 2024-03-19T16:34:42Z

    الانشطار الذاتي

    Arabic

  • Created: 2023-09-27T15:42:42Z

    自切

    Chinese

  • Created: 2020-07-09T15:47:04.086+02:00

    autotoomia

    Estonian

  • Created: 2024-02-08T14:08:48

    autotomie

    French

  • Created: 2022-10-25T21:27:15

    ავტოტომია

    Georgian

  • Created: 2022-10-25T21:27:52

    თვითდასახიჩრება

  • Created: 2022-09-23T09:54:20

    Autotomia

    Italian

  • Created: 2022-08-08T12:12:05

    autotomi

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • Created: 2024-02-08T14:08:48

    autotomie

    Romanian

  • Created: 2022-08-08T12:12:05

    Last modified: 2022-11-25T16:06:02

    автотомия

    Russian

  • Created: 2022-09-23T09:54:35

    Autotomía

    Spanish

  • Created: 2022-09-07T14:29:32

    ototomi

    Turkish

  • Created: 2023-02-18T20:43:04

    автотомія

    Ukrainian

  • Created: 2023-02-18T20:45:08

    аутотомія

  • Created: 2023-02-18T20:45:36

    самокалічення

URI

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_d43cab30

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