Horned Lizard Displays Defensive Behavior

Captive bred male P. cornutum displays defense from perceived predation.
This animal was from bred in AZ. from captive stock, legally collected in AZ.

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Sorry about the sound. That was the poor video converter I had at the time, interpreting video from a camera with no audio. For some stupid reason, youtube won't allow it to be edited because it has "too many views". Never heard of such a thing.

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Pets & Animals

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• horned
• lizard
• phrynosoma

[thegeckoproduction]

Try this flip them over and rub their belly they fall asleep Its funny

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@thegeckoproduction Yes, that's a well known parlor trick, but what I am doing here is demonstrating how they defend themselves with body tilting.

[abachonk]

@PhrynosomaTexas I have one of these and it's very weird.

It has been sleeping like for 2 months and it doesn't eat anything.

IT'S NOT DEAD, I WOKE IT UP SOME DAYS AGO AND IT'S STILL ALIVE.

I just dunno what's wrong with him :/

[PhrynosomaTexas]

Prime reason why your shouldn't have it. I would assume you captured it from the wild and I bet you don't have the proper food, basking & UVB lighting or food. It's either deathly ill, or you are not keeping it at proper temps and it is dying slowly, or it is trying to hibernate; in which case you will kill it because you probably haven't fasted the thing and don't know how. Please surrender it to a rescue such as mine or find a herpetologist. This is not an animal you should be keeping.

[abachonk]

@PhrynosomaTexas Thanks for the info, I'll make it as fast as I can.

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@abachonk It can't be returned to the wild during winter or it won't survive though.

[Mutablest]

He´s playing kinect....

[locoskyzik]

its dancing haha...

it will be the next king of pop lol

[HillSideSureno13]

@LeOgEcKoMaN hahahhaha lowrider statics

[LeOgEcKoMaN]

lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooo.....FRONT, BACK, SiDE TO SiDE!! WOOP WOOP..nice vid im surprised this vid onlie got 2 comments