Sahara Desert Animals Information

They all grow between 8-14 inches and sometimes have horns over each eye.

Sahara desert animals information. Some desert plants sprout and bloom only when it rains. Dunes - Dunes are hills made of sand. The best time to travel to the Sahara Desert is between October and April.

Today parts of the Sahara Desert are still fertile and help to support human and animal life. Spotted hyena common jackal and sand fox. The desert has gone through shifts in temperature and.

As such compared to animals in the other parts of the world obviously their diet and way of living also differs. Ergs - Ergs are large areas of sand. Spotted hyena jackal barbary sheep oryx ostrich raptor cobra chameleon various lizards scorpions.

Animals such as the desert snail survive by using estivation a period of dormancy that some animals can enter when encountering extreme environmental stress. Around 25 million people also call the Sahara. They hunt at night only.

Other plants like mesquite grass have very small leaves that curl up in the daytime to conserve the water they have. Arctic Animals and Antarctic Animals. The lizards grow up to 1-2 meters in length and have an average lifetime of about eight years in the wild.

Some dunes in the Sahara can reach over 500 feet tall. A native of the Sahara Desert for thousands of years it has thrived in regions where few other animals could survive. They are mainly active when the temperature is really high.