Facts on dessert animals

1.Meerkats

Meerkats have a procetion layer over their eyes so their safe when digging.

Meerkats fur is brown to help them blend in.

Meerkats fur is thin to help them keep cool.

Meerkats dark eyes help them see without being harmed by the sun.

spinifex hoping mouse

Thier eye sight is amazing as they are are night hunters.

Thier kidneys absorbe water from their waste.

Their tail gives them balance while hopping.

Greater roadrunner

Thier carnavor and they eat almost any meat they find.

They will eat grass for water even though their carnovors.

They will hunt in early moring and the evenings during hotter times.

They'll also rest during midday in summer and hotter times.

Bugierigar

Thier herbovors so they'll fly in shearch of food.

They have strong beaks to help them get and eat food.

They keep cool easier as they are warm-blooded.

They can also mimic other strong birds so they don't get hunted as they think it's something stronger.

Regal horned lizard

Theyvhave sticky toungues to help catch prey

Their immune to ant venom.

They have hard scales to help agianst preadtors.

They can spray blood at thier preadtors.

Thorny devil

They have spikes that absorbe water.

Spikes as a defence aianst preadtors.

They have a fake second head.

They find ant trails and then lick them all up.

Fennec Fox

Fennec foxes ears help them keep cool like an umbrella.

They like to dig burrows to aviod the sun.

Thier thick fur keep them warm at night.

Thier small body and sandy coloured fur give good cover-up from preadtors.

Greater bilby

Thier arms are strong to help with digging.

THey dig burrows to keep cool when its hot.

Their pouches are in their back to keep them clean when digging.

Their eat mud and sand to get water out of it.

Naked mole rat

Despite their names, naked mole rats are neither moles nor rats (nor are they totally hairless). They are more closely related to porcupines and guinea pigs.

Soldier mole rats defend the colony from both predators which is mostly snakes and foreign mole rats and they identify them as foreign by their odor.

Worker mole rats are celibate and spend most of their time digging.

The queen is not born a queen but they are a normal female untill they fight thier way to the top.

Marsupial mole

The marsupial mole spends most of its time 1-10 centimeters below the surface on average.

When burrowing, the marsupial mole burrows straight down at random times, going as far as three meters for no reason.

The marsupial mole has a highly unusual body temperature management, and it can change in the extreme

When at rest the metabolism of the marsupial mole is very low, however when it burrows it can increase up to sixty times, giving a large burst of energy and activity.