#autotomy
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #autotomy from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #autotomy
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-14 17:57 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-14 17:57 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #autotomy.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 17:57 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 6 public posts (spanning ~42580 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (4) · Galician (1) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.5
Top of the latest posts
@cstross Guillotines might. Missing from the social media discussion of these is that this only happened to young sea slugs. Older ones just died after some days, and did not regenerate their bodies. https://sciencefocus.com/news/solar-powe
29-Aug-2024 Scientists discover how #starfish get ‘legless’ A neurohormone that makes their arms fall off is identified I just learned that #autotomy is the ability to shed a limb - don't try this at home! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-re
A single #peptide helps #starfish get rid of a #limb when attacked. #predation #autotomy #ArSK_CCK1 #Asterias_rubens https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/how-starfish-ditch-limbs-when-attacked/
What “autotomy” means
WikipediaAutotomy is the behaviour whereby an animal sheds or discards an appendage, usually as a self-preservation mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape. Some animals are able to regenerate the lost body part later. Autotomy is thought to have evolved independently at least nine times. The term was coined in 1883 by Léon Fredericq.
“Autotomy” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#autotomy across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #autotomy straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/autotomy