DESERT ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS
Hot and Dry:
Coyote: They have claws to help the coyote tear its food. The camouflage of its fur helps it hide in grass and rocks. Its strong muscles help the coyote run fast and catch its prey.
Coyote: They have claws to help the coyote tear its food. The camouflage of its fur helps it hide in grass and rocks. Its strong muscles help the coyote run fast and catch its prey.
Komodo Dragon: They can smell with their tongues that helps them locate their prey. Their legs are powerful and can run up to 20 mph to catch its prey. With their sharp claws helps them climb trees to catch birds and snakes.
Rattle Snake: It uses its fangs and pushes out its venom to the fangs from sacks and poisons the prey. Their tongue is a sensory organ and can be used to feel the air around them and use the information to hide or hunt.
Cold:
Gray Fox: Their different kind of fur,gray,white,or black can blend into their habitat and breaks up the animals' outline. The colors and markings makes them inconspicuous to predators and prey. They adapt to their omnivorous diet and they don't depend on one single food source.
Gray Fox: Their different kind of fur,gray,white,or black can blend into their habitat and breaks up the animals' outline. The colors and markings makes them inconspicuous to predators and prey. They adapt to their omnivorous diet and they don't depend on one single food source.
Caracal/Desert Lynx: It can survive for long periods of time without getting any water and focus on getting their prey. They have big ears so they can hear what's around them and they are really good climbers that helps them catch its prey easier than other cats.
Semi Arid:
Cheetah: The cheetahs long legs helps them go up to 70 mph and change at any direction and still go fast to catch its prey. Its spots help them blend in with other grasses and bushes to hide from their predators or ready to attack their prey.
Cheetah: The cheetahs long legs helps them go up to 70 mph and change at any direction and still go fast to catch its prey. Its spots help them blend in with other grasses and bushes to hide from their predators or ready to attack their prey.
Fennec Fox: They have a sandy fur that helps them reflect heat and also can be used as camouflage. It can also survive without water in the desert and their kidneys helps restrict water loss to help them survive.
Lanner Falcon: They have special adaptations in their nostrils that allow them to breathe. Each nostril has 2 fins and a rod,the air is slowed down,making breathing less of an effort. Requires fast reflexes and has forward facing eyes with binocular vision.
Coastal:
Frilled Dragon Lizard: They have a frill that opens when a predator tries to attack and scares them off. They also have the ability to stay and camouflage to any surrounding and helps them catch its prey.
Frilled Dragon Lizard: They have a frill that opens when a predator tries to attack and scares them off. They also have the ability to stay and camouflage to any surrounding and helps them catch its prey.
Barn Owl: Its unusual facial disc helps them locate their prey. It captures and focuses the sand into its ears which are positioned,one slightly above the other,next to their eyes.