SUBMITTED BY:

YOHAN REY M. ROQUE

GRADE IV

SUBMITTED TO:
MARY ROSE O. LANSANGAN
TEACHER
ANIMALS
IN HOT
DESSERT
 CAMEL

A Camel is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known
as “humps” on its back. Camels have long been domesticated and, as livestock, they provide food
and textiles.
Scientific Name: Camelus
Family: Camelidae
Lifespan: Dromedary: 40 Years

Did you know???

There are two species of

camels- The Dromedary or
Arabian Camel which has a
Single Hump and the Bactrian
Camel which has Two Humps
 XERECOLE

A Xerecole, commonly referred to as a dessert animal, is an animal adapted to live in the dessert.
The main challenges they must overcome are lack of water and excessive heat. To conserve water,
they both avoid evaporation and concentrate excretions.
Lifespan: Dromedary: 40 Years
Length: Fennec Fox: 24-41cm
 ADDAX
THE Addax,, also known as the white antelope and the screwhorn antelope, is an antelope of the
genus Addax, that lives in Sahara dessert. It was first described scientifically by Henri de Blainville
in 1816.

Scientific Name: Addax nasomaculatus

Did you know?? The addax

employs its short, blunt muzzle to
graze coarse dessert grasses and
when these are unavailable it
browses on acacias, leguminous
herbs and water-storing plants
such as melons and tubers.
 SANDGROUSE
Sandgrouse is the common name for Pteroclidae, a family of sixteen species of bird,
members of the Order Pterocliformes. They are traditionally placed in two genera: the two central
Asian species are classified as Syrrhaptes and the other fourteen species, from africa and Asia, are
placed in the genus Pterocles.

Scientific Name: Pteroclidae

Family: Pteroclidae; Bonaparte, 1831
Order: Pterocliformes; Huxley. 1868
Phylum: Chordata

Did you know??

Sandgrouse are gregarious,

feeding in flocks of up to 100
birds.
 MURSUPIAL MOLE
Mursupial moles are highly specialized mursupial mammals, known from two species found at the
Australian interior. Notorcytes typhlops. Notorcytes caurinus Notoryctids are small, fossorial
mammals that are anatomically converge on other fossorial mammals such as living golden moles
and extinct epoicotheres.

Scientific Name: Notoryctes

Rank: Genus

Did you know???

It is very rare creature, seldom

seen, and there are only two
known species, however there
could possibly be more.