Realistic Plastic Horned Toad

Add this wonderful replica to your collection or diorama!

Our Plastic Horned Lizard

Our plastic horned lizard (or horned toad - we called them horny toads where I grew up in California) is about 5 1/4 inches from the side of its turned head to the tippy end of its pointed tail. It is made of softish plastic and is even puffed up somewhat with air so that when you squeeze the belly it almost feels like a real horned toad! This little toy is so realistic, it looks for all the world like a real animal and is about the same size as its living relative. Check out our other horned lizard models, toys and gifts. We have an inviting collection of interesting reptile species!

About Horned Lizards

Also popularly referred to as horned toad, horny toad, or horned frog, the horned lizard (Phrynosoma) is neither a toad nor a frog, although its blunt nose and round body make it resemble toads. Although unrelated species, the horned lizard is structurally very similar to the Australian thorny devil…so much so that the two species are considered an excellent example of convergent evolution (the evolution of similar biological traits in unrelated species). Eight of the fourteen North American species of horned lizard are native to the United States.

The horned lizard feeds primarily on ants and other insects, remaining still and allowing their prey to come to them. To defend themselves against predators, the horned lizard has evolved many interesting traits: camouflage, skin bristling with hard knobs and spikes, the ability to balloon their body and appear larger and harder to swallow, speed coupled with the ability to suddenly and completely stop (throwing off a chasing predator), and in at least four species, the ability to spray an aimed stream of blood from their eyes.

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