Desert Animals Information And Pictures
From bugs and birds to reptiles and mammals.
Desert animals information and pictures. Facts about Desert Animals 4. There are pages of information and photos for each of these animals. Despite its harsh conditions many different types of animal inhabit the Sahara Desert.
Links to further information are provided for many of the animals. A camel can drink very large amounts of water in one day or survive for a relatively long time without drinking any water. Depending on the location of the desert animals and plants native to deserts are camels peccaries bats coyotes lizards snakes woodpeckers scorpions different types of cacti creosote bush black sage and ocotillo.
These include mammals like gerbils Cape hares gazelle deer hyenas and foxes. Animals that can be found in the Sonoran include the Sonoran Desert Toad the Desert Bighorn Sheep the Cactus Wren the Pronghorn Antelope and the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. This desert animal can camouflage on the desert due to the disruptive head marking countershading and dusty coloration.
Different types of animals and plants exist in the different desert types of the world that include hot coastal semi-arid. True deserts have very few plants. Numerous species of birds also call the Sahara home.
A BBC Bitesize animated video explaining how camels are adapted to live in the desert. There are several desert animals which sport the convergent evolution. The IUCN considers many species as endangered including the Egyptian tortoise gazelles antelopes Saharan.
Desert animals survive in some of the most brutal of Earths environments with amazing physical adaptions. Desert animals include coyotes and bobcats spiders such as the black widow scorpions rattlesnakes lizards and many kinds of birds all especially adapted to the desert biome. Some deserts however are always cold for example the Gobi Desert in Asia and the desert on the continent of Antarctica.