Cold Desert Animals Adaptations

Desert Reptiles May cold-blooded animals digest their food using the suns energy.

Cold desert animals adaptations. Cold desert animals such as lizards camels and gazelles show different adaptations to protect themselves in the cold climate. Sahara desert animals adaptations. Large fleshy stems to store water.

Adaptations help desert animals to acquire and retain water and to regulate body temperatures which helps them to survive in the harsh conditions of the desert. They will learn how different animals are adapted to live in hot and cold deserts. Just like animals plants need to adapt to the dryness cold temperatures and saltiness of the soils of cold deserts.

Desert animals have evolved ways to help them keep cool and use less water. Common adaptations include modified exoskeleton camouflaging and burrowing. Anatomical Adaptations Baleen plates in the mouth instead of teeth made of keratin the same tough protein that makes hair and nails.

These animals stay in their burrows during the hot days and emerge at night to feed. Examples of physical adaptations the thickness of an animals fur helps them to survive in cold environments. Other common adaptations seen in desert animals include big ears light-colored coats humps to store fat and adaptations that help conserve water.

Camels long leg eyelids hump are all examples of adaptation. Cold-blooded animals entirely lack sweat glands as they rely on the external environment to regulate body temperature. Animal Adaptations Deer inhabit some of these areas only in winter having grown a thick fur coat and then migrate in the summer season after shedding this coat.

There are quite a number of animals that live in the Gobi Great Basin and Atacama deserts. Animals living in cold deserts include jack rabbits kangaroo rats kangaroo mice pocket mice grasshopper mice antelope ground squirrels badgers kit foxes coyote lizards and deer. After staying in the desert for winter the deer travel back for summer.