Focus on Species: Regal Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma solare)
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The regal horned lizard (Phrynosoma solare) shoots blood from its eyes to defend itself against predators! Join me in discovering this lizard of the desert southwest.
Check out the regal horned lizard defending itself by squirting blood
from its eyes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEl6TXrkZnk
For more information check out the following:
Horned Lizard Conservation Society - http://www.hornedlizards.org/
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum -
http://www.desertmuseum.org/books/nhsd_horned_lizard.php
The regal horned lizard is also featured in Jeff Corwin's book, Living
on the Edge: Amazing Relationships in the Natural World (2003).
Photograph of preserved Maricopa harvester ant courtesy AntWeb.org at:
http://www.antweb.org/bigPicture.do?name=casent0005712&shot=p&number=1