The short-horned lizard lives in the Sonoran Desert in Mexico. It has two adaptations that help it thrive in this area. First, it is immune to the poison of harvester ants. Normally, harvester ants cause dangerous attacks on the lymphatic system. These harvester ants are the main food of the short-horned lizard. In addidtion, the lizard has a very strange adaptation that is a means of scaring off prey. When a large predator has cornered the animal and the lizard thinks that it can not escape, it will begin to inflate its eye sockets with blood. Once enough blood is pushed into the small eyesockets, enough pressure is generated to shoot blood out of the eye of the lizard. This will confuse and scare the predator.
Source - photos -http://www.reptilesofaz.org/Graphics/Lizards/PHRSOL-09a.jpg
~~ Brendan Amos
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