Category: Defences, Warnings, Camouflage & Mimicry
Here are, and will be added, NudiNotes about the various methods by way of appearance, behaviour, structure, chemistry, adaptation and the integration of some or all of these that sea slugs employ in order to avoid and defend themselves against predators.
AUTOTOMY – THE SELF SACRIFICE DEFENCE
Autotomy – the Self Sacrifice Defence The ability to cast off a particular section of their anatomy, in order to facilitate escape from a predator, is possessed by a wide range of animals. Although the phenomenon, even in the Mollusca, had been recognized previously the term wasn’t coined until 1883 by Leon Fredericq as
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