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English P.P.T“ Desert
Animals’’By
Name : Sankalp.R.AngadiClass : 6/B
Roll. No : 31
Definition of desert animals
Animals that live and survive in desert are called desert animals
Pictures of desert animals
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.
Desert horned lizardThe 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.
Mule deerThe 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).
Fennec foxThe 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 فنك (fanak), 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.
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).
