• Plant food
  Desert plants provide food and water for many animals. Cacti store ...

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  About 5,000 years ago the Sahara Desert was covered in rich grassland ...

• Kit fox
  The kit fox hunts for food at night, well hidden by its greyish-black ...

• Sleepy squirrel
  The Mojave squirrel in the USA survives long droughts by sleeping for ...

• Spit and polish
  Desert wallabies and kangaroos in Australia have an unusual way of ...

• Little leaper
  Kangaroo rats are an important part of desert life. They are often ...

• Ships of the desert
  There are two types of camel - the one-humped Arabian camel and the ...

• Out in the cold
  Mammals living in very cold places need special survival skills. Many ...

• High home
  The highest-living mammal is the wild yak of Tibet and China. It can ...

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  Macaques living high up in the mountains of northern Japan have to ...