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This book describes desert biomes, including their different ecosystems.

In this adventurous, Spanish-translated nonfiction title, elementary readers discover poisonous plants and dangerous animals from deserts around the world. Readers will be enthralled with its vivid images, informational text, and interesting facts about desert ecology and desert plants and animals, including sidewinder snakes, dingo's, desert locusts, and barrel cacti.

Provides a description of deserts, including a desert climate, desert plants, desert animals, and desert formation.

Describes the characteristics of deserts and the plants and animals that inhabit them.

Among the steep cliffs of Utahs canyonlands a band of rare desert bighorn sheep simply vanished. Although the word "extinct" was bandied about, their passing seemed to fit the downward spiral of native wildlife in the Southwest that began in the early twentieth century. Remote, isolated, and elusive, this band slipped through the cracks. The bighorns were gone. Then they came back. We have allowed ourselves few places and scant ways to witness other...

Describes the activities of various animals living in the Sonoran Desert and their dependence on the saguaro cactus for sustenance.

Describes the climate, environment, and animals of the Sonoran Desert located in the southwestern United States.