• What drinks the juice of a poisonous cactus?
  In American deserts, pack rats eat the fruit and flesh of the saguaro ...

• Why is dew the devil’s favourite drink?
  The thorny devil is a lizard of American deserts. Its body is covered ...

• Which frog is its own water bag?
  Water-holding frogs live in pools in Australian deserts. As the dry ...

• When is a kangaroo really a rat?
  Kangaroo rats have strong, springy hind legs shaped like a kangaroo's ...

• What wears snow-shoes with hairy soles?
  Desert animals, such as camels and addax antelopes, have very broad ...

• What young insects like to hop about in bands?
  Locusts are desert insects with long hind legs and powerful muscles. ...

• Do many desert animals have large ears?
  Fennec foxes, of the Sahara Desert, have large pointed ears. So do ...

• Which lizard moves like a fish?
  Sandfish are African lizards with long, slender bodies, like eels. ...

• How do its ears help a jack rabbit keep cool?
  Jack rabbits are desert hares with very long ears. The thin skin ...

• Which huge desert birds are champion runners?
  Ostriches live in deserts and dry grasslands in Africa. These large, ...