Animals In The Desert Habitat
These animals can be found in drier more desert locations across the frontier.
Animals in the desert habitat. In cold deserts youll see some medium-sized animals like coyotes kit foxes and badgers. These videos are found in our library. Deserts especially true deserts are not easy places for animals to live.
Animals survive in deserts by living underground or resting in burrows during the heat of the day. The Desert Habitat collection for the Naturalist role features 14 animals. How do they protect themselves from the heat and how do they find enough water.
Mammals such as the fennec fox meerkat dromedary and Bactrian camel. Desert Habitat Animals. Kangaroo rats in the Sonoran Desert get water from the seeds.
The Cape Ground Squirrel native to Africa uses its bushy tail as a parasol bringing shade wherever it goes. Others live along the edges of deserts where there are more plants and shelter. Semidesert habitats have enough rainfall to support more plant and animal life.
They include meerkats spiders. Mammalian desert animals tend to sweat. Below is a list of animals that live in the desert with links to additional information on each animal.
How do animals survive in the desert. Animals have adapted to get water from. Many birds also live in deserts like the bald eagle roadrunner and great horned owl.