There are many kinds of lizard families, and there are many differences in morphology and posture, there are fierce and huge Komodo dragons, there are chameleons that can change the color of their bodies according to the surrounding environment, and the lizard today is small, but has a unique skill.
It is the horned lizard, a lizard that looks like a dragon in a Western story.
<h1>Wearing a "gilli suit"</h1>
The horned lizard is also called the crowned horned lizard, and because the horned lizard's body looks like a toad at first glance, it is also called the horned toad, but no matter how to call it a "horn", the lizard is as its name suggests, and the horned lizard is indeed covered with sharp horns.
The horned lizard is very small, the longest is about 12 centimeters, the shortest is not even 7.5 centimeters, the existing horned lizard only lives in the California, Texas and Mexican deserts in the United States.
Horned lizards are not as strong, ferocious and cruel as their relatives Komodo dragons, they are more gentle in temperament, and usually eat ants and insects, so they have many natural enemies, such as eagles, coyotes, foxes, snakes and other creatures.
Although the horned lizard looks as steady as an old dog, but the heart is still panicked, in order to survive in the desert with many natural enemies, the horned lizard can only continue to enrich its survival skills.
The first thing to say is that they protect the color. In order to avoid the pursuit of predators, horned lizards have the ability of "imitation", the color of the body surface is basically the same as the desert and rocks, when they encounter a pursuit, they quickly drill into the sand, blend with the sand, and when the crisis is lifted, they can come out with peace of mind.
This protective color not only allows the horned lizards to avoid hunting but also helps them to hunt quickly, and the horned lizards will lie there quietly and eat them when the prey lets their guard down.
The second is the body surface of the horned lizard with long pointed horns. Horned lizards have many sharp and hard horns on their body surface, which protect them like an upside-down dagger, and when there is an enemy who wants to eat them, their horns play a role, especially for predators like rattlesnakes who love to swallow, sharp horns can easily pierce the throat of rattlesnakes, and finally rattlesnakes can only die of excessive blood loss.
The protective color similar to the desert plus the sharp horns can be said to be the same as wearing a strengthened version of the "auspicious suit", but these two things are not the must-kill skills of the horned lizard.
<h1>Killer skills</h1>
For some coyotes, foxes, such as canines, cat predators, their claws are more flexible, when catching the horned lizard, because they know that the horns of the horned lizard are very dangerous, so they will not blindly mouth but will tear them with their claws, "torture" the horned lizard for a while, and then eat it when it loses its resistance.
At this time, the horned lizards will not sit still, they will use the killer skill - the eyes spurt blood!
Horned lizards will use the closed-port muscle to compress the main blood vessels, is the increase in blood pressure in their own brain, and the blood vessels of the instantaneous membrane in the horned lizard's eyes are very thin, and the excessive pressure is easy to rupture the instantaneous membrane blood vessels, and the blood spurts out of the eyes, and the blood range is very long, 1-2 meters.
This blood not only scares off predators, but most importantly, when the blood is sprayed into the mouths of canines and cats, it can bind to some receptor in their mouths, which can cause them short-term damage, even if it is not sprayed into the mouth, the smell of blood is very unpleasant for these two predators.
For fragile humans, blood pressure in the brain rises rapidly in a short period of time and ruptures blood vessels, which is basically not far from death, but for horned lizards, this operation can not damage their brains, because this is a local blood pressure increase, if not at a time, you can spray several times.