7. Phrynocephalus
Also called Toadhead Religion, small lizards that live in the desert |
This exhibit some strange behavior. They communicate with each other by mneurunkan and raising their tails, their bodies shook as quickly bury themselves in the sand and will scare away predators with good looks weird and frightening, colorful mouth, look here.
6. Phrynosoma
This lizard nicknamed "horned frog", body fat thick protective covering horns and thorns. Inhabit dry land, sandy environments, they eat ants and awesome boasts one of the most horrific mechanisms in nature perthanan. When scared, some species may drain blood pressure in their head to the small vessels around their eyes burst, spraying blood flow to the attacker.
similar possibilities acidic blood is taken from the acid in ants, allowing mammalian predators know that this fat lizard attack just wasting their time. Unfortunately however, the birds are not too concerned with this wry spray
5. Moloch horridus
Although not at all related to the horned frog, or lizard "thorny devil", "moloch" has developed a lot of the same characteristics in response to the desert environment, including spiny bodies, sandy camouflage and diet by eating ants. Their spines make this lizard is rather difficult to be swallowed by the predator.
4. Hydrosaurus pustulatus
Seeing as it crawled straight from the Permian era, Philippines Sailfin lizards are omnivorous eaters amphibious fruits, nuts and other small insect prey in a tropical river.
Toes they leveled allow small specimens to escape predators by walking on water, a trait that is shared with lizards "Basilisk" or lizard "Jesus". Known adult male has a beautiful blue color, red or even a color pattern purple, which you can see here:
3. Amblyrhynchus cristatus
The Galapagos marine iguana islands boast a lifestyle that is not shared by other reptiles, such as penguins or sea lions, they spend their entire lives in the line of the beach, dive into the water for their food. Charles Darwin is known disgusted by these animals when he first found it, and this lizard called by the nickname "" IMPS of darkness. "
2. Heloderma suspectum
Almost similar to "beaded lizards," Gila Monster once recognized as one of the lizards in the world with a venomous bite, giving a painful neurotoxin through grooves ang small sharp teeth, we now know that there are also other lizards that could have, even with poison light, and lizards "Crazy Monster" is still the most toxic.
1. Varanus komodoensis
Komodo is the largest carnivorous lizard that is still alive today, sometimes reaching nearly ten feet in length. Although much of their food rotting carcasses, they too will live large prey such as deer to give a bite, after that they just have to wait when the victim began to lose blood and infection.
Thanks carrion diet, they are quite rich saliva with bacteria that could seriously weaken prey, and recent studies have shown that they also have a poison. In addition, native to Indonesia's dragons can loosen their jaws, stretch their necks and pulled merahuntuk lubricating mucus swallowed whole body.