Mammals living in the Hot Desert
The Hot Desert is the hottest habitat on Earth. With its hard extremes of lack of water and oppressing heat, it is known for its rugged terains of sand and stone. Hot Deserts can range from flat landscapes to hills, cliffs and canyons. Rainfall in a Hot Desert will be less than 10 inches per year.
The Animals that live in the Hot Desert, are unique in that they have bodies and behaviors adapted and equipped to survive on low amounts of water. For example, the Road Runner has the ability to raise and lower their body temperature. Desert Big Horn Sheep use their hooves and horns to break into cacti, for their moisture packed insides. Other animals that can be found in a Hot Desert are Scorpions, Tarantulas, Vultures, Coyotes, Rattlesnakes, Jackrabbits and LIzards.
These Animals use a variety of methods to escape the hot, dry days. Some will migrate into the mountains or toward desert plains. Using the advantage of the deserts low vegitation coverage, some animals find shady places to rest and avoid the harsh sun. Birds can soar, to cool off. Some animals spend days in caves and burrows, hunting during the nighttime hours for food.
The Hot Desert and its inhabitants are truly unique, and are one of the great lessons in adaptablity.
Even-toed ungulates
Arabian oryx
Addax
Roan antelope
Addra gazelle
Dorcas gazelle
Idmi
Springbok
Rhim gazelle
Red-fronted gazelle
Blackbuck
Goitered gazelle
Chinkara
Saudi gazelle
Arabian gazelle
Salt's dik-dik
Queen of sheba's gazelle
Nubian ibex
African buffalo
Klipspringer
Carnivores
Cross fox
African lion
Fennec fox
Leopard
Peruvian desert fox
Cheetah
Rusty-spotted cat
Jungle cat
Sand cat
Black-footed cat
Striped hyaena
Bay lynx
American jackal
Arctic wolf
Black-backed jackal
African caracal
Spotted hyaena
Afghan fox
African sand fox
Bats
Rüppel's pipistrelle
Horn-skinned bat
Ethiopian large-eared roundleaf bat
Southern long-nosed bat
Trident bat
California leaf-nosed bat
Geoffroy's horseshoe bat
Heart-nosed bat
Lesser mouse-tailed bat
Midas free-tailed bat
African sheath-tailed bat
Naked-rumped tomb bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Dasyuroid marsupials and marsupial carnivores
Banded anteater
Chuditch
American marsupials
Grayish mouse opossum
Hyraxes
Rock dassie
Elephant-shrews
Somali elephant shrew
Bushveld elephant shrew
North african elephant shrew
Round-eared elephant shrew
Marsupial moles
Northern marsupial mole
Marsupial mole
Bandicoots and bilbies
Bilby
Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs
Black rhinoceros
Primates
Hamadryas baboon
Elephants
African elephant
Rodents
Flower's gerbil
Giant kangaroo rat
Lesser egyptian gerbil
Fresno kangaroo rat
Mackillingin's gerbil
San jose island kangaroo rat
Fat-tailed gerbil
Baluchistan gerbil
Margarita island kangaroo rat
Pale gerbil
Greater egyptian gerbil
Somalian gerbil
Cairo spiny mouse
Tarabul's gerbil
Waters's gerbil
Namaqua rock rat
Euphrates jerboa
Iranian jerboa
Olrog's chaco mouse
Gerbil mouse
Four-striped grass mouse
Desert pocket gopher
Texas pocket gopher
Sundevall's jird
Tropical pocket gopher
Libyan jird
Hairy-footed gerbil
Mearns's pouched mouse
Namib brush-tailed gerbil
Phillips's mouse
Mohave ground squirrel
Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
Mauritanian gerbil
Bushveld gerbil
Pleasant gerbil
Cape short-eared gerbil
Anderson's gerbil
Dallon's gerbil
Texas kangaroo rat
Somalia gerbil
San quintin kangaroo rat
Edentates
Screaming hairy armadillo
Large hairy armadillo