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