What are some desert animal adaptations?
Being Nocturnal– meaning they only or mostly hunt or look for food at night when it is cooler so less moisture needed to survive. Also many desert animals are able to absorb through their skins any dew on plants caused by night/day temperature difference. Spending most of their lives underground such as termites, moles, blind snakes etc. Ability to metabolise every drop of moisture from their food and even produce concentrated urine to conserve water-loss and survive until next distant rainfall. Storage of food such as done by wild hamsters and pack rat’s so as to be able to survive when all surface food is gone/ eaten. Most desert vertebrates are reptiles which can survive weeks, months even in extreme cases yrs Between feeding/ plus are able to exist with their metabolism in idle. Laying eggs that will only hatch when/after rare rainfall. IE many fish and shrimp can produce enormous populations in once a decade wet but mostly dry creek beds, from dessicated eggs. Many insects such a
