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This week's Animal Oddity is about a lizard that shows some "mad skillz" playing a video game.

In the video below, a guy presents his insect-eating bearded dragon lizard with a video game called "Ant Crusher" where realistic-looking ants crawl across the screen. I've never played the game before but based on the name, I assume you need to squish as many of the virtual ants as possible to earn points.

As evidence that bearded dragons have great eyesight -- not to mention amazing eye-tongue coordination -- the poor lizard hungrily attempts to gobble up the virtual ants.

She's pretty good at it too. I don't think she missed any.

I just hope he fed her some real insects after her impressive performance with the game!

Get the latest odd animal news, stories, videos and behaviors on my Animal Planet blog, Animal Oddities.

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