@newscientist: Horror lizard squirts tears of blood🦎🩸 If ever there was an animal that said “Don’t even think about eating me,” it would be the Texas horned lizard. It has many defences, but as a last resort, the lizard will assault the predator by squirting a jet of blood out of its eyes. This rather extreme weapon confuses the predator and allows the lizard to escape. The lizard may release a third of its total blood supply this way, amounting to 2 per cent of its body mass, and the jet can travel several feet. The blood is laced with noxious chemicals, which may come from the venomous ants that are the lizards’ preferred diet. Dogs are particularly vulnerable to the blood, and if they get sprayed they spend a while shaking their heads to get rid of it. The lizards seem to know this and are more likely to use it on dogs than on other predators. Autohaemorrhaging, as this gruesome trick is called, is moderately common in insects, but horned lizards seem to be the only group of vertebrates that do it. Tap the link in bio to learn about more horror animals from our ghoulish gallery #halloween #hornedlizard #lizard #spooky #blood #weirdanimals #LearnOnTikTok #Science

philip. :

Not good to do this as the lizard needs that blood to survive

inti🐝 :

huhhhhhh

Pxscal_09 ✝️🙏 :

Erklärung?

⏤͟͟͞͞✮ 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐳𝐳 backup :

exactly that's why I love them.. THERE ALSO SO CUTE

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what

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Tittyslapper :

Does it hurt them

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Lincoln Street 💥🌬️ :

that would get me to leave for sure

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Chris :

I'm sorry wat

Vry Mars :

hornet lizard attack

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