Devil Horned Lizard Facts

DEVIL HORNED LIZARD

      The Devil Horned Lizard is a lizard that can reach up to eight inches and is covered by thorns on the entire upside of its body. Its camouflage colors are mainly tans,yellows,and brown. These things help protect itself from predators. They can eat thousands of ants each day. They get some water form these ants and some they get over night. At night they collect dew on there backs. Then the water is guided by the thorns to its mouth. The devil horned lizard has a strategy that helps confuse predators. When a predator is trying to eat the lizard the lizards first tactic is to run and stop really fast. If this doesn't work its second option is to make its self puff up and show off the thorns. Some of these lizards have the option to squirt blood from its eyes. This works by having the lizard build up the blood pressure in its head to make small vessels in the eyes to rupture. When this happens its blood can shoot as far as three feet. Most predators get confused at this point if they haven't already and and run away. The blood is also said to be disgusting to taste so that's another reason the predators may run away. Go here if you want to see the blood shoot.