Desert Animals

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2. Definition of desert animals
 Animals that live and survive in desert are
called desert animals

3. Pictures of desert animals

4. Desert scorpion
Desert scorpion is an arachnid. Arachnids have
eight legs. Their body has two body parts,
called abdomen and cephalothoraxes. Desert
scorpions range is south west. It lives in sandy
places in the desert like sand dunes. It eats
insects such as spiders and beetles. . It’s
predators are baboons, snakes, lizards, lions
and bears. There are more than 600 species of
scorpions.

5. Desert horned lizard
The desert horned lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) is
a species of phrynosomatid lizard native to western
North America. They are often referred to as "horny
toads", although they are not toads, but lizards.
Desert horned lizards prey primarily on
invertebrates, such as ants (including red harvester
ants,) crickets, grasshoppers, beetles, worms, flies,
and some plant material.
They have one row of slightly enlarged scales on
each side of the throat.
When they find an area of soft sand, they usually
shake themselves vigorously, throwing sand over
their backs and leaving only their head exposed.

6. Mule deer
The most noticeable differences between white-tailed
and mule deer are the size of their ears, the color of
their tails, and the configuration of their antlers. In
many cases, body size is also a key difference. The
mule deer's tail is black-tipped, whereas the
whitetail's is not.
The mule deer is the larger of the two Odocoileus
species on average, with a height of 80–106 cm (31–
42 in) at the shoulders and a nose-to-tail length
ranging from 1.2 to 2.1 m (3.9 to 6.9 ft). Of this, the
tail may comprise 11.6 to 23 cm (4.6 to 9.1 in).
Adult bucks (male deer) normally weigh 55–150 kg
(120–330 lb), averaging around 92 kg (200 lb),
although trophy specimens may weigh up to 210 kg
(460 lb). Does (female deer) are rather smaller and
typically weigh from 43 to 90 kg (95 to 200 lb), with
an average of around 68 kg (150 lb).

7. Fennec fox
The fennec fox or fennec (Vulpes zerda) is a small
nocturnal fox found in the Sahara of North Africa .
Its most distinctive feature is its unusually large
ears, which serve to dissipate heat. Its name comes
from the Arabic word ‫(فنك‬fanak), which means fox,
and the species name zerda comes from the Greek
word xeros which means dry, referring to the fox's
habitat.[2] The fennec is the smallest species of canid
in the world. Its coat, ears, and kidney functions
have adapted to high-temperature, low-water, deser
environments. In addition, its hearing is sensitive
enough to hear prey moving underground. It mainly
eats insects, small mammals, and birds.

8. Desert tortoise
 The desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii and
Gopherus morafkai) are species of tortoise
native to the Mojave desert and Sonoran deser
of the southwestern United States and
northwestern Mexic and the Sinaloan
thornscrub of northwestern Mexico.[3]Gopherus
agassizii is distributed in western Arizona,
southeastern California, southern Nevada, and
southwestern Utah.[3] The species name
agassizii is in honor of Swiss-American
zoologist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz.
Recently, on the basis of DNA, geographic, and
behavioral differences between desert tortoises
east and west of the Colorado River, it was
decided that two species of desert tortoises
exist: the Agassiz's desert tortoise (Gopherus
agassizii) and Morafka's desert tortoise
(Gopherus morafka).

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