Desert Animals Snake Information

NCERT Solution Class 6 Desert Animals Chapter 9 Explanation video and Question Answer.

Desert animals snake information. Desert animals include coyotes and bobcats spiders such as the black widow scorpions rattlesnakes lizards and many kinds of birds all especially adapted to the desert biome. There are more than 2300 different kinds of snakes around the world. Desert king snake Both the speckled king and the desert king snakes are glossy black often dark brown with a profusion of singular yellow spots.

Most of these animals have long limbs and ears which act like car radiators helping their bodies to stay cool. How animals adapt to the desert. And Mexico deserts and has cool adaptations that help it move fast on hot sand.

The potent hemotoxin produced by this viper kills its prey almost immediately. Below is a list of animals that live in the desert with links to additional information on each animal. Lets take a closer look at how snakes survive in the desert.

Some are harmless other are very poisonous. Examples of desert animals include invertebrates such as scorpions and camel spiders. All the exercises and Question and Answers given at the back of the lesson has been covered.

The snakes have a length of about 20-35 cm and possess a broad triangular head and tiny eyes. A venomous species of snake the viper Cerastes vipera inhabits the Sahara Desert. Reptiles such as the thorny devil Gila monster and sidewinder rattlesnake.

For the speckled king snake nearly every scale on the back and sides has a yellow spot but in the desert king snake the spots are confined to the sides and to narrow crossbands that pass at intervals from side to side across the spine. The Sidewinder can often be found buried in the sand of the desert or in animal burrows. All types of snake including rattlesnakes adders vipers boas and cobras live in deserts worldwide.