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Autotomy is the behaviour wherein an animal sheds or discards one or more of its own appendages, for example tails, usually as a self-defense mechanism to distract or escape from a predator. The lost body part may be regenerated later. Which of these animals exhibits this kind of behaviour?

A)  Garden lizard

B)  Fruit bat

C)  Star tortoise

D)  Slender loris