Due to extreme conditions, the desert is not the most favorable habitat for animals and plants. The daily temperature here reaches sixty degrees, heating the surface of the earth to ninety degrees. Freezing may occur at night. Acute lack of moisture and heat of heat prevent the development of vegetation. The rainy period is negligible - no more than two months a year. But after him, the nature of the desert briefly changes. Green plants appear on the surface, birds make nests, insects and reptiles lay their eggs, and mammals raise newborn babies.
Animals
Quite surprising are the questions about who lives in the desert, how living creatures manage to adapt to harsh climatic conditions. Nevertheless, in spite of everything, the animal world is very diverse. From hot sunlight, animals are saved in different ways.
Some inhabitants of the sand dunes are nocturnal. Geckos, jerboas, sand boas hid in the afternoon in cool cool minks. Lizards, round heads, agamas, and some mammals do exactly the same. Animals are active only in the early morning, while the sun has not yet sufficiently heated the air. They wait for the heat in burrows or burrow into the sand, those who do not have such an opportunity hide in the rare foliage of trees or under stones. Small birds arrange their homes in the shadow of the nests of large birds - ravens or golden eagles.
Those who live in the desert have adapted to extract the water necessary for life in various ways. Pigeons and hazel grouse fly away for life-giving moisture for several tens of kilometers from their habitats. Rodent animals, antelopes, various beetles get it from plants by eating leaflets, green branches, rhizomes or bulbs. Inhabitants of desert territories are awarded by nature with a special physiological ability, which allows organisms to spend water very economically.
Some of the animals living in the desert have the ability to quickly move along a sandy surface. Small lizards and insects have peculiar scallops on their legs, formed by overgrown scales or bristles. Thanks to the processes, a rigid support is created during movement.
Predators
Among the many inhabitants of the desert there are predators. These are foxes, jackals, snakes. But most animals belong to the herbivore family. Food for camels and antelopes are thorns, branches of shrubs. Small rodents feed on plant seeds.
Insect deserts are less visible, but their world is very diverse. Many species of beetles, ants, mosquitoes, mosquitoes gain activity at night. Those who live in the desert know how dangerous the life of the poisonous spiders are tarantulas and scorpions. Their bite is often fatal.
Vegetation
Due to the peculiar climatic conditions, desert vegetation flourishes lushly in spring after a period of rains, however, for a short period. And then for a long hot time it freezes in its development. The source of moisture in this area is groundwater, which can only be reached by plants with long roots that go far underground. Representatives of the plant world, with a surface root system, pull life-giving juices from the upper layer of sand, in which atmospheric moisture condenses at night.
The constant lack of water has led to the fact that the desert flora has developed the special properties of reduced fluid intake. The leaves of trees and shrubs, appearing in the spring, soon often fall off, leaving spines or thorns in their place. An example of such a tree with thorns is acacia. Some plants have small leaflets covered with a wax coating or fluff, which minimizes the evaporated surface. These include Saxaul and Jezgun.
Conclusion
Nature is not very merciful to the inhabitants of such territories. All animals and plants of tropical deserts are forced to exist in a constant struggle for their survival.