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    Inventive animals with life-saving tricks: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

    Aug 12, 2020 4 minutes
    By Lars Thomas

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    Toxic blood squirts from the eyes

    The regal horned lizard can strike the face of a predator with a jet of toxic blood from a distance of a metre.

    Regal horned lizards are sturdy reptiles the size of frogs that live in dry regions of North and Central America. The 15 known species are all spiky and thorny, but they nevertheless fall victims to birds of prey, coyotes and foxes. Against birds of prey, the regal horned lizard's best defence is to inflate itself into a small spiky football and display its big neck thorns. But if it is attacked

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