🐪Desert Animal Superstars
This tall desert animal has a hump on its back and can travel long distances in the desert.
What is a camel? 🐪
This desert reptile slithers on the sand and some kinds can rattle their tails.
What is a snake? 🐍
This desert animal has sharp pincers and a stinger on its tail.
What is a scorpion? 🦂
This small fox has huge ears that help keep it cool in the Sahara Desert.
What is a fennec fox? 🦊
This bird runs very fast across the desert and is the largest bird in the world.
What is an ostrich? 🐦
This bird from the desert Southwest is famous in cartoons for saying “beep beep!”
What is a roadrunner? 🐦
This reptile spreads a big frill around its neck to scare predators.
What is a frilled-neck lizard? 🦎
This desert owl makes its home underground in burrows.
What is a burrowing owl? 🦉
This desert animal curls into a prickly ball to stay safe from predators.
What is a hedgehog? 🦔
This hopping animal from Australia carries its baby in a pouch.
What is a kangaroo? 🦘
This desert rodent survives without drinking water because it gets moisture from seeds.
What is a kangaroo rat? 🐭
This desert reptile moves sideways across the sand to stay cool.
What is a sidewinder snake? 🐍
This reptile from the American desert spends much of its time underground and has a hard shell.
What is a desert tortoise? 🐢
This reptile can change its colors to blend into its surroundings.
What is a chameleon? 🦎
This striped animal lives in the dry grasslands and deserts of Africa and looks like a horse.
What is a zebra? 🦓
This small desert mammal from Africa hops like a tiny kangaroo using long legs.
What is a jerboa? 🐭
This reptile stores fat in its thick tail to survive in the hot desert.
What is a Gila monster? 🦎
This desert predator from Africa is known for its loud “laughing” call.
What is a hyena? 🐾
This lizard from the U.S. desert can squirt blood from its eyes to scare predators.
What is a horned lizard? 🦎
This African desert cat has sandy-colored fur that helps it blend into the desert.
What is a lion? 🦁
Camels don’t actually store water in their humps — they store this instead to help survive long desert trips.
What is fat? 🐪
This desert lizard can run across the hot sand on two legs like a tiny dinosaur.
What is a collared lizard? 🦎
This desert bird hunts small animals at night and has excellent hearing.
What is an owl? 🦉
This desert fox has fur on the bottom of its feet to protect it from hot sand.
What is a sand fox? 🦊
Some desert animals only come out at night to stay cool. This nighttime behavior is called this.
What is nocturnal? 🌙