Animals In The Desert Ecosystem
It then moves on to some other important aspects of desert plantanimal interactions with a focus on pollination and seed dispersal.
Animals in the desert ecosystem. In short desert ecosystem is the community of living and non-living organisms living together and interacting in an environment which seems to be abandoned. A desert ecosystem is basically devoid of any rainfall or precipitation. The camel also has special eyelids and eyelashes that help to keep sand out of their eyes.
Deserts are an arid region which usually has hot temperature throughout the year. It consists of Insects such as Anopheles mosquito Caterpillar Scorpions Spiders Lice Ants Butterflies Moths and Roaches. Scavenging desert animals include ravens vultures crows foxes and coyotes.
How these animals and organisms live and thrive off of each other is commonly referred to as the food chain. Below is a list of animals that live in the desert with links to additional information on each animal. Additionally many scavenging insects subsist on dead organisms.
The desert fox wild dog and the wild donkey also are found in the desert. The desert habitat is home to a range of animals and plants that have actually adapted to make it through in extreme dry conditions. The camel is another desert animal.
The plants and animals of the desert ecosystem have mastered the art of survival in harsh conditions. 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. Animals like burrowers and kangaroo rats make up the dominant residents.
Thus most of the animals in desert ecosystem rely on their behavioural physiological and structural adaptations to avoid the desert. Of the various forms of pollination the chapter will explore the yucca moth-yucca and senita moth-senita cactus mutualisms. On the onset of rains a variety of animal like grasshoppers butterflies bees beetles and spiders and more may be seen in the desert ecosystem.