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PARA-546-Autotomy: 🦀 X

Caretaker Status: Bonded to CARE-18

Affiliated companion(s): COM-130-546-1

Level 4 - abstract
Word: Autotomy

Origin:
From auto- + -tomy, after German Autotomie, French autotomie. The Greek prefix auto- means “self.”

Definition:
The casting off of a part of the body (e.g. the tail of a lizard) by an animal under threat.

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.

Magic Status: 1 - Neophyte
Tier 1 - All but the first 4 segments of their tail can fall off if it gets stuck/pulled/etc., then regrow over the next couple weeks.

Wisdom Status: 0 - Unaware