What Animals Live In The Desert

The Sahara Desert has extreme living conditions for the animal kingdom.

What animals live in the desert. Furthermore many people believe that camel hump contains water. A good example of an animal with special adaptations is the camel. The donkey is a domesticated form of the African wild ass.

Learn the names of desert animals with example sentences. They are mostly omnivorous and they are closely related to the rats and mice which belong to the Muridae family. How do desert animals survive without water Class 6 English.

Some species of Camels have only one hump but bacterial camels have two humps and can take energy from them and they can survive for more than seven months without drinking water. The most abundant lifeforms in the desert regions are non-mammalian vertebrates such as reptiles and arachnids. Gerbil also known as a desert rat is made up of over 110 rat species which live in Asia India and Africa plus this includes jirds and sand rats.

A description of the conditions found in a desert habitat featuring the adaptations of the fringe-toed lizard and the camel to survive in this harsh environment. Know about these animals and do your part in preserving them for the future generations. The presenter describes the sand.

Gerbils keep themselves cool in underground holes. Earths driest deserts get around half an inch of precipitation per year in the form of condensed fog. A variety of animals adapted to live in semi-arid deserts include mammals such as Desert Bighorn sheep and hares called Jackrabbits reptiles like chuckwallas lizards rattlesnakes and.

Camels store fat which provides energy to camels during long treks. The animals that live in the desert usually have special adaptations that allow them to survive the extreme temperatures and conditions that are present in a desert. A camel can drink very large amounts of water in one day or survive for a relatively long time without drinking any water.