Prehensile Tail Loss

[jason longboard]

Neither the skink nor the alligator lizards are capable of autotomy at all. It would seem that the only lizard with a prehensile tail that detaches is the crested gecko...

No from my other Rhac sites their are others Im finding out from the same areas that grow them back. So why the crested dosnt is beyond me.

Someone else wrote this"Rhacodactylus trachyrhynchos will completely regrow a dropped tail and will regrow the specialized scales at the end that form the "pad" used for gripping. The color and scale pattern is off slightly, but their regeneration is truly spectacular.

I have seen chahoua and sarasinorum regrowths, but I'm not sure how far up the tail it can be. It might be like clreptiles said, and that they won't grow it back if it is too close to the base. I haven't heard about that before, but it is possible.

There has to be some other reason that ciliatus don't regrow their tails besides it being too complex. Did you know that newts can completely regrow lost limbs? If a newt gets a leg bitten off or something, it will grow it back and it will be fully functional. Now that is some crazy stuff. "


I would link you guys to the sites but if your not members it wont show.

The books say that gargs can regrow the tail over and over again.Now is it a semi prehensile tail, I dont have one and the book didnt say so you tell me lol.

 

[rudukai13]

Perhaps it's not the complexity of the tail, but rather a redirection of energy - the crested geckos body deems the tail to be unneccesary and thus doesn't see a need to spend so much energy regrowing it, so the energy is used elsewhere...Although this is just a guess.