As a means of self-preservation. A predator can attack it, it can lose its tail and then regrow it. The predator will usually not attack the rest of the body once it has the tail, which continues to move for quite some time after being detached, allowing the lizard to get away.
A tail will often wiggle after it has come off to distract the attention of the predator so the lizard can escape. Lizards sometimes eat their own tail after they have shed it to regain weight from losing the tail. Some lizards store up to 60% of their body fat in their tail. A species of Skink can survive 35 days without food but may die in 24 days after losing its tail. It may take only a month for small lizards to regrow their tail but for larger lizards it can take a year. Geckos can live without food for 90 days but if they have lost their tails they may last only 50 days. Female lizards that have lost their tails produce fewer eggs because their body's energy is used to regrow their tail.
It a defensive mechanism. If a predator attempts to eat a lizard and the lizard loses his tail the predator has a choice between a fleeing lizard or a easy tail.
it is a way of surrvial
if you cut it off
if u mean loose its tail then grow it back, no. only some reptiles and amphibians have that trait. no birds or mammals can grow back limbs/tails.
Mostly for balance.
to show it is happy
Yes. Long tailed grass lizards lose their tails also in the wild also if they get nervous.
Lizards can lose their tails, but not all lizards can grow them back.Lizards that lose their tails may grow them back but the replacement tail is never as long or as colorful as the original one. Replacement tails grow back in as little as three months or as long as two years.In Iguanas and Komodo Dragons, the tail bones are not designed to break easily and the tail muscles are also not designed to pull apart smoothly. These lizards however can also lose their tails, but it takes a much stronger pull to make this happen. With these types of lizards, the wound heals, but the tail does not grow back.The main species that are capable of regrowing their tails are skinks and salamanders. So the answer may be that your blue tailed lizard (which is likely a blue tailed skink) will grow his tail back, it will just be a while.
Lizards can because they are warm blooded animals and they can sweat reason being is because they lose water
lizards
Because other pigs bite them off.
Mice should not loose their tails. If they do, than an animal harmed it or the tail got stuck. Mice do not drop their tails like lizards, and mice are mamals, all mamals do not loose their tails
All lizards can lose their tails by getting it eaten off or something, but some lizards can 'lose' their tails. As in, if you frighten it or catch it by the tail, the lizard could detatch the tail from their body (and it would still move to confuse the attacker), and they could run away and regenerate the tail. =) -kelsey.
no
They lose their tails, not legs.
the answer is no but they can regenerate their tails
Yes
they grow back because lizards reproduce asexually
Toads live in the forest. Lizards live in the desert. Lizards have tails toads do not.
Yes. Long tailed grass lizards lose their tails also in the wild also if they get nervous.
yes
no
Yes.