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Show Lizard Scares Foes by Display of Ruff Out In Australia, the home of the kangaroo and a lot of other curious animals, there is a peculiar lizard, apparently ap-parently impressed with the truth of the maxim that an enemy scared and chased away Is an enemy less to tight today. And there's nothing like a good bluff, anyway if It works, says the Baltimore Sun. To frighten its foes away this reptile has developed a most remarkable growth of skin on Its neck, ordinarily hanging In loose folds but capable of being erected Into a wide f III or ruff very like those of the days of Good Queen Bess, and It is colored red on the surfaces which show from the front when it is standing stand-ing out around the head and neck. As if all this was not enough the lizard also walks or runs on his hind feet, holding his forelegs up In the air. We may hazard a guess that he borrowed bor-rowed the system from the kangaroos, but If he' did he forgot to lend them the ruff in return. Just how terrifying all this is to the natural enemies of the frilled lizard we are unable to say, but If we look at his picture In the books we must at least admit that If. makes him appear sufficiently unattractive. |
