By Sathvik

3 Herbivores

Desert Tortoise Desert Tortoise The desert tortoise is cold-blooded. To survive in the desert, the tortoise investigates the remains underground in its burrow during the hottest times of the day in the summer and hibernates it sleeps underground in its burrow through the winter. Tortoises come out in the spring to eat grasses and wildflowers and drink water from the spring rains although they obtain most of their water from the plants they eat.

The White-tailed antelope squirrel White-tailed antelope ground squirrel: The white-tailed antelope squirrel is common to abundant in the deserts of California from Mono Co. south to the Mexican border, and along the northeastern border of California in Lassen and Modoc cos. optimal habitats are desert scrub.

DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP Desert Bighorn Sheep: The Desert Bighorn Sheep creatures, with rams having large brown horns curling around, under and forward. They are typically found in the higher elevations near water sources or rocky cliff areas. They eat grasses and other plants. Bighorn Sheep have hooves adapted to steep, rocky terrain and use their climbing abilities to escape predators.

3 carnivores

The Road Runner A large black-and-white on the ground it is quick enough to catch and eat small rattlesnakes. The Roadrunner prefers walking or running they run up to about 18 miles per hour rather than attempting to keep its large body in the air with its short rounded wings. Primarily carnivores, the roadrunner will eat lizards, snakes, scorpions, other birds, rodents and insects found in the open or rolling terrain it inhabits throughout the desert. Depending on the scarcity of prey, the Roadrunner may supplement a small portion of its diet with vegetation.

Mountain Lion Mountain Lion Mountain Lion: Mountain Lions are true carnivores, feeding only on other animals. The preferred food of the Mountain Lion is mule deer, or occasionally a bighorn sheep but a lion will make a meal of any small animal, such as coyote, fox, raccoon, rabbit rodents, and birds. Lions often keep a carcass covered with dirt, leaves or snow and return to feed on it over the course of a few days.

The Golden Eagle The Golden Eagle is named after it’s golden colored feathers on the crown and it’s neck. It weighs about 8-12 ponds the body is colored with dark brown feathers and so is the tip of it’s tail.

3 Omnivores

The Coyote The Coyote The coyote is the deserts most successful praetor because it could run up to 40 mph. The coyote’s diet is mostly insects,lizards, snakes, birds rodents and rabbits. The coyotes are famous for there howling and also there barking.

Ravens The ravens average life span in the wild is about 13 years. It size is in. and it’s weight is about 2.3 lbs.

Cactus Wren The bird is 7-9 inches tall they are also very active birds. They always investigate new things in there territory.

Food chain

Role Play The desert has many decomposers but here is one. It is the dung beetle. It helps this biome by eating animal waste and there are the only species other than humans to use the Milky way to navigate themselves. By burying and consuming animal poop, they improve nutrient recycling and soil

Desert Animals Adaptations 1 reason is that turtles stay under ground They make there territory so they don’t have to mess with other animals. They make there own shelter to protect themselves from predators.

sources Wikipedia.com Natural geographic