Desert Animals

Are the driest places on earthand sometimes go for months, or evenyears, without rain. But even the desertanimals cannot survive without water,or for long periods in the scorching sun,so they have had to find different waysof coping with the harsh conditions. Forexample, gerbils spend the hottest partof the day in cool underground strange insects called darklingbeetles are experts at catching drops ofmoisture on their legs, then lifting theminto the air until the drops trickle downinto their mouths. Not all deserts areendless seas of rolling sand are rocky or pebbly and dottedwith small bushes while others aresprinkled with colourful flowers duringthe are more than 2300 differentkinds of snakes around the world,ranging from just fifteen centimetreslong to more than eleven metres.

small animals. Rattlesnakes kill their prey with venom. Like all snakes, they swallow the unfortunate animals whole. Few snakes have to eat mor e than once a week and some, such as the larger pythons, can survive for a year or mor e without eating. 4. Mongooses like to hunt together, but they always keep a lookout for dangerous predators nearby ...

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