These remarkable desert animals can take extreme body temperature ... Peccaries are native to North and South America, ...

Dietary adaptations: Many desert animals get most of their water from the food they eat, requiring them to drink very little water ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants ... actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the ...

Human activities such as firewood gathering and the grazing of animals are also converting semiarid regions into deserts ... number of wildfires that alter desert landscapes by eliminating ...