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==Defensive behaviour==
==Defensive behaviour==
[[Image:Horned_lizard_blood.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Coast horned lizard (''Phrynosoma coronatum'') after squirting blood from its eye to protect itself.''' (Wikicommons)]]
[[Image:Horned_lizard_blood.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Coast horned lizard (''Phrynosoma coronatum'') after squirting blood from its eye to protect itself.''' (Wikicommons)]]
[[Image:Lizard_Fight.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Two male red-headed rock agama lizards fighting''' (Wikicommons)]]
When threatened, iguanas, monitors and other lizards tend to display defensive aggression. They stand sideways to the threat, swallow air to increase their size, stand high off the ground to look bigger and lash at the threat with their tails. Some lizards may display head bobbing and push-ups or gape and threaten to bite.
When threatened, iguanas, monitors and other lizards tend to display defensive aggression. They stand sideways to the threat, swallow air to increase their size, stand high off the ground to look bigger and lash at the threat with their tails. Some lizards may display head bobbing and push-ups or gape and threaten to bite.