Desert Animals

Many animals can survive in dry regions and desert heat. These animals have found a way to survive. But when compared with desert plants, desert animals more susceptible to the direct heat of the body. Both mammals, birds, and reptiles, these animals are out at night, when cooler air. In the afternoon, they took shelter under rocks and plants or in the holes. Animals that came out during the day has a way to distance themselves from the hot sand. For example animals "Jerboa Sahara" and the American kangaroo rats that have long hind legs to jump quickly on the ground.

Crazy Lizard is a lizard type found in the desert of the United States and Mexico. His movement is very slow, but it has fangs like a very poisonous snake. These lizards store fat in its tail and can survive for months without eating. There is another rattlesnake. Snake moves sideways for most of his body did not touch the ground with his head half-submerged in the sand.

Thin kit foxes that live in the Sahara Desert has a great ear to help release the heat from their bodies.

Because of the lack of water, some animals have been able to adjust themselves to the desert area. For example, a camel. They can go for days without eating and drinking. Fat contained in a supplementary feeding punuknya and provide energy for the body. Some other animals get the fluid they need from plants and insects they eat, they almost do not need to drink at all.