It is a small lizard of the family of the iguanas, of semicircular body that measures around 15 cm; it presents pointed grudges that simulate thorns in the base of the head, which serves to him mainly like defenses before their natural predators. It's know as tapayatzin (blood cryer in nahuatl) because it secretes blood by the eyes when it feels in danger.
It is distributed almost by all the municipality, although it is but the zones of culture and the forests of pine and encino.
It is fed on invertebrates, but mainly on ants and spiders.
His reproducction is ovovivipare
They mexican horned lizar its in extinction danger in all Mexico because the people kills him for belive its poisonous or simply by that badness that the human being characterizes. |
