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Re: Armadillos, Cane and Horned Toads
Posted By: Kelly, on host 24.17.184.132
Date: Sunday, July 1, 2001, at 10:58:16
In Reply To: Re: Armadillos, Cane and Horned Toads posted by Nelson on Saturday, June 30, 2001, at 19:50:18:

> > > They...huh? Toads do WHAT? How is that possible... wouldn't they go blind?
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> > > Wolf "huh?" spirit
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> > This is truely gross:
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> Still doesn't explain how they do it. I think this is one of those mysteries of nature that You'll only believe it when you see them do the eyeball trick. In my honest opinion.

The blood doesn't literally come out of their eyes. What happens is that they bulge their eyballs out and squirt the blood from small ducts on the side of their eye sockets.

It just looks like it's coming out of their eyes.

Kel"and yes...it is gross"ly