Animals In The Desert Region

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Animals in the desert region. The addax is known for its characteristic crooked horns. This animal is found in sandy as well as semi-arid desert regions. Golden Jackals are more related to the grey wolves and coyotes than the jackal species.

Most of these animals are either crepuscular or nocturnal. Below is a list of animals that live in the desert with links to additional information on each animal. Other animals come out only at night.

Reptiles such as the thorny devil Gila monster and sidewinder rattlesnake. Mammals such as the fennec fox meerkat dromedary and Bactrian camel. They are also known as the gold-wolf common jackal and Asiatic jackal.

Here the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts merge to form an area thats home to hundreds of different plant and animal species. The animals that currently inhabit the Sahara desert are some of the oldest species in the world. As such compared to animals in the other parts of the world obviously their diet and way of living also differs.

These animals concentrate excretions while avoiding evaporations to conserve water. Although deserts are thought to hold very little life there is in fact a great diversity of both plants animals that inhabit desert regions. Others live along the edges of deserts where there are more plants and shelter.

Examples of desert animals include invertebrates such as scorpions and camel spiders. Because of this specialization a desert can appear to be lifeless to the untrained eye. It has particularly extensive desert in the southern part of the state near the Mexican border.