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Blood Squirting Lizard | National Geographic


00:00:00you’re about to witness one of the most

00:00:03bizarre pieces of defensive weaponry

00:00:05ever devised by mother nature’s has

00:00:09there ever been a weirder use of an eye

00:00:12socket or of blood

00:00:15this bloody lizard lives near Saguaro

00:00:19trees in the Sonoran Desert in Mexico a

00:00:22bird drops swaro fruit for the harvester

00:00:25ants to muncha and in turn the Regal

00:00:29horned lizard munches on the ants the

00:00:32ants make it their business to fight

00:00:34back looking for a chink in the lizard’s

00:00:37body armor unfortunately for the ants

00:00:42the Regal horned lizard has a sticky

00:00:45tongue with pretty good aim and is

00:00:47immune to ant venom and his body can

00:00:50actually get all the moisture it needs

00:00:52from the ends which make up 90% of its

00:00:55diet just as the answers stalked by the

00:00:58lizard the lizard is stalked by a coyote

00:01:01the next link on the food chain the

00:01:04coyote is fast deft and determined

00:01:09the lizard finally has a reason to

00:01:11deploy its doomsday weather

00:01:15that’s swelling below the lizard’s eye

00:01:18isn’t a tear duct

00:01:19it’s high-octane coyote repellant aka

00:01:22blood let er rip blood pressure builds

00:01:27up to the point where the lizard can

00:01:29actually shoot blood out of a tie with a

00:01:31precision aim of a sharpshooter and yes

00:01:34it’s nothing more than plain old blood

00:01:39the coyote wisely retreats to find a

00:01:42less feisty meal game set match victory

00:01:47to the blood squirting Regal horned

00:01:49lizard