04 February, 2013

✿ Desert Dwellers ✿


 Meerkat (Suricata suricatta), is a small mammal belonging to the mongoose family. They inhabit all parts of the Kalahari Desert (Botswana), much of the Namib Desert (Namibia) and southwestern Angola and South Africa 

✿ Prairie Dogs (Cynomys), burrowing rodents native to the grasslands of North America ✿
✿ Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), also known as the Dwarf Leopard, is a wild cat distributed over South and Central America and Mexico ✿

Sand Cat (Felis margarita) is found throughout the deserts of northern Africa and southwest and central Asia

 Fennec Fox (Vulpes zerda) in the Sahara; the smallest species of canid in the world. Their amazingly good hearing allows them to detect prey underground
The Sonoran Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana sonoriensis) is an endangered subspecies of pronghorn (antelope) found in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and Sonora

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