Desert Animals - Zoos South Australia

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• Discuss other animals that walk on sand and any adaptations they have to help them to do so! Write down your ideas.• Draw the enclosure where the Fennec foxes live.Notice the lack of plants in the enclosure, and take note of the type of leaf on the few plants in there.• Explain how this type of leaf would benefit the plants in a desert.
NOCTURNAL HOUSE ANIMALSMany of the animals in the Nocturnal House are desert dwelling animals.• Discuss reasons why this might be the case!The dark conditions in the Nocturnal House make it difficult to read to write, so for thispart of the Trail you should observe and quietly discuss what you see. You can writedown your ideas when you are outside again.The desert animals in the Nocturnal House include the Bilby, Spinifex hopping mice, Fattaileddunnart and Mulgara.Observe and take note of the following aspects of these desert-dwelling, nocturnalanimals;‣ how fast-moving some of the animals are and how this would be an advantage,‣ the parts of Australia they are found, compared to the map below.‣ their physical and behavioural adaptations, eg size, how they move, etc‣ compare the desert-dwellers’ enclosures with the features in the non-desertHabitat enclosures.• Write down what you have discovered from your observations and discussions.Map of Australia’s Desert area.
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