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  2. Thorny devil - Wikipedia

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    Thorny devils often eat thousands of ants in one day. [2] The thorny devil collects moisture in the dry desert by the condensation of dew. This dew forms on its skin in the early morning as it begins to warm outside. Then the dew is channeled to its mouth by gravity and capillary action via the channels between its spines. During rainfalls ...

  3. List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures - Wikipedia

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    Gaiya, giant devil dingo of lower Cape York Peninsula; Dhakhan, ancestral god of the Kabi; I'wai, culture hero of the Kuuku-Ya'u; Yalungur, god of the first baby; Yarri a tree-climbing predatory animal along the Herbert River (possibly part of the myths of speakers of the Warrgamay language or Warrongo language).

  4. Horned lizard - Wikipedia

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    Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta), introduced from South America via the nursery industry's potted plants, pose a significant threat to all wildlife including horned lizards. Phrynosoma species do not eat fire ants. Fire ants kill many species of wildlife, and are fierce competitors against the native ants, which horned lizards require for food ...

  5. The Goriest Defense Mechanism of Any Animal - AOL

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    The Thorny Tactics of a Horned Lizard ©Matt Jeppson/Shutterstock.com Horned lizards mostly hunt out in the open, licking up ants and other insects with their sticky tongues.

  6. Eurycantha horrida - Wikipedia

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    Eurycantha horrida, the thorny devil walking stick, [1] is a species belonging to the stick insects (order Phasmatodea) and to the family Phasmatidae. [2] Description

  7. Chelosania - Wikipedia

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    Chelosania eats ants, and has been recorded eating green ants. [ 5 ] Genetic analysis shows that Chelosania , along with the thorny devil , is a significantly older species than more recent desert agamids.

  8. Eurycantha calcarata - Wikipedia

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    The thorny devil color ranges from light brown to black and resembles bark or rotten wood. Both sexes are wingless and armored with spines on body and legs. Exhibiting the sexual dimorphism of many similar insects (particularly other phasmids as well as mantises ), males are small and thinner, less than 9-10 cm long while females are typically ...

  9. Myrmecophagy - Wikipedia

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    Juvenile Iberian green woodpecker eating ants. Myrmecophagy is found in several land-dwelling vertebrate taxa, including reptiles and amphibians (horned lizards and blind snakes, narrow-mouthed toads of the family Microhylidae and poison frogs of the Dendrobatidae), a number of New World bird species (Antbirds, Antthrushes, Antpittas, flicker of genus Colaptes), and multiple mammalian groups ...