Horned lizard is a 3-star creature card from the Atomic Age. Horned lizards eat harvester ants, and some can squirt blood from their eyes.
Bonus by grade
| Grade | Copies needed | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 0 | +10% smaller bad-event losses |
| Uncommon | 2 | +18% smaller bad-event losses |
| Rare | 5 | +30% smaller bad-event losses |
| Epic | 10 | +45% smaller bad-event losses |
| Legendary | 20 | +70% smaller bad-event losses |
Duplicates raise the grade: Uncommon at 2, Rare at 5, Epic at 10, Legendary at 20.
Codex
- Common: Horned lizards live in dry parts of North America.
- Uncommon: Harvester ants are a big part of their diet.
- Rare: They are flat and covered in spines.
- Epic: Some can squirt blood from their eyes to scare predators.
- Legendary: They rely on camouflage to stay hidden.
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Field guide
| Size | About 7–13 cm long, depending on species |
| Nest | Open dry ground; buries itself in loose soil to escape heat |
| Diet | Mostly ants, especially harvester ants; eats only live, moving prey |
| Defence | Camouflage, hissing, playing dead, and squirting blood from around the eyes |
| Active | Day; basks to warm up and burrows when hot |
| Lifespan | Not well known |
| Where it lives | Dry country of North America, including the Sonoran Desert region |
Did you know?
- Ants are low in nutrition, so a horned lizard must eat a great many of them.
- Ant-eating species have shorter teeth and thinner lower jaw bones than other lizards.
- Swarming ants can kill an adult horned lizard, so it retreats from them.
Sources: desertmuseum.org