This document provides information about various desert animals. It discusses the desert eagle found in Mexico's flag, rattlesnakes and rattlesnake festivals in Texas, the fennec fox that can live without water due to its large ears, the Gila monster that eats eggs, the desert turtle that can camouflage itself as a rock, the desert kangaroo rat found in southwestern North America, adaptations that allow camels to live in deserts, the Harris hawk that hunts in groups in the southwestern US and Central/South America, the scolopendra heros centipede found in northern Mexico, the desert king snake that preys on rattlesnakes and can grow over
3. This is a desert eagle
you can find it in mexico’s
flag
4. Rattle snake can be
found a lot in Texas
in Texas there is a
festival hunting
rattle snakes .due
to it large amount in
an environment.
5. Fennec
fox can live
without water !
Because it has
large ear . Also
it can be an
expensive pet!
6. Gila monster
eat some
animal’s egg
from their nest.
7. Is this a
stone?!
no, it’s a
desert
turtle it
can make it
self look a
rock!
8.
9. The desert kangaroo
rat, Dipodomys deserti, is
a rodent species in the
family Heteromyidae that is
found in desert areas of
southwestern North America. It
is one of the large kangaroo
rats, with a total length
greater than 12 inches (30cm)
and a mass greater than 3.2oz
(91g).
10. Camels can live in desert
because: a foot that can
stand on sand, long eye
lash so the sand won’t
get in it’s eyes and a
hump that can collect
11. Harris hawk is medium
size bird which breed
from the southwestern
US. South to Chile and
central Argentina. It
eats birds, lizards
, mammals , large insects.
It often hunt in groups it
can also eat prey such
12. Scolopendra .heros
can be found in
northern mexico it’s
about 6.5 inches long
it has 21 or 23 pairs
of legs
13. Desert king is a fearsome enemy of
a diamond back rattle snakes king
snakes can grow to 3-4 feet or 6.8
feet!
14. IT is a venomous viper
species native to the
deserts of Northern of
Africa. They have horn
on it head.
15. Arizona elegans is a midium size
colubrid snake,
it’s commonly referred to a
‘glossy snake’.
16. Sand cat also known as sand dune cat it
live in the desert of north Africa and
central and south west Asia.