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How do desert animals keep cool?

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Turkey vultures and some stork species wet themselves. In fact, they are known to keep cool by peeing on their legs and feet. ... Once the liquid droppings evaporate, a white chalky residue is left behind coating the bird's legs (and feet) which provide additional protection from the sun.
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Thanks, for your valuable answer, I got to learn something new from this. This answer is perfect and up to point with reason mentioned.
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Thanks for this information it's so insightful. Then animals have behaviors that can tempt someone to even start the study of animals
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Come is quietest animal in the desert. Deer and rabbit also remain peaceful. But biggest feature of a camel is that can it remain waterless for 7 days. It easily climbs up the largest of the mounds with padded feet. Obtains food from bushes with long neck. Kangaroo also quite animals.
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I don't see any connection between the quitest animal and how an desert animal keep themself cool. 
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Desert animals are well adapted to hot weather conditions they have developed behaviours, water adaptations, heat dissipation and etc. in order to survive. Some reptiles bury themselves in the sand, others are usually active only in the night while other animals like rodents simply burrow. 
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According to your answer, adaption place a vital role for an animal to survive in that specific environment am I right in understanding it?
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I didn't know this,but now I know this is very usful information about the matter at hand.
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I didn't know this,but now I know this is very uful information about the matter at hand..i unrstand what you are trying to say, keep it up
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Animals that live in desert where the temperature is always high they are known as desert animals like- camel, lizards, jackrabbits, etc.
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The primary strategy for dealing with high desert temperatures is avoidance- many mammals simply avoid the high daytime temperatures by being nocturnal or crepuscular ( dusk-or-dawn-active). A bobcat, for instance is typically most active at dusk and dawn, a javelina is never active during the day in summer, but it may be in winter. Even day-active birds are most active at cooler dawn. Many mammals, such as ringtails or kangaroo rats are never active during the day. 

Some mammals create their own microclimate. A white- throated wood rat(or pack rat) build a den made of desert litter-cholla joints, prickly pear pads, sticks and stones-within a clump of  prickly pear cactus. It looks a little like a trash heap and may be three feet high and eight feet across. At the bottom of the pile is a series of tunnels leading to a nest of soft plant fibers. The pack rat spends its day in the soft nest, somewhat insulated from exterior air temperature that may be 110F or 43C, with a ground surface temperature of 160F or 71C.

Squirrels may often be observed pressing their bellies, with legs spread, against the cool soil or even tile of suburban patios in shady spots, allowing it is presumed their body heat to be conducted to the cooler earth in their burrows in similar fashion when they retreat to them in on hot days.

Kangaroos -There is a network of blood vessels in their forearms that is capable of cooling down their whole body. When they lick them until they are soaking wet, their whole body temperature is lowered as the saliva evaporates.
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Could you please explain it more clearly, I mean avoiding something such as extrence hot temperature, how is it even possible when you can feel the heat.
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Foxes, spiders, antelopes, elephants and lions are common desert species. Desert fox, Chile. Addax antelope. Deathstalker scorpion. Camel. Armadillo lizard. Thorny Devil. Rock Hopper penguin.
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You have only mentioned the names of the animals, but you didn't explained anything are they desert animal and if they are how they are able to keep themself cool in such a hot climatic condition.
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When the sun is at its hottest,

kanga are usually found lying low and chilling out. Kangaroos lack natural sweat glands, but they do have a special network of blood
vessels in their forearms. When a kangaroo needs to cool down, they lick their lick their forearms until the fur is soaking wet. As their saliva evaporates, it quickly cools down their body temperatures through the evaporation of their saliva.
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There are many animals who can survive the scorching sun of the desert. From all animal kingdoms such as reptiles, mamels, amphibians, birds and insects. It depends on what kind of desert. 
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Camel is one of desert animals that can stand a lot of time without being tired or thirsty

The keep a lot of water in body that why people use them to walk in deserts
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On this page is a list of animals that live in the desert, with pictures and facts on each species. We’ve selected desert animals from all over the world, and because many of these species are threatened, we’ve included their conservation status according to the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).
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Most can go with a very  time without any water at all but most of the time they from cact water and small water.whereby it is all aquired once in a time.
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Desert animals have evolved strategies to cool off or avoid being exposed to the heat.

Many tiny animals live in subterranean shelters or burrows. They come out at night to look for food and store it in their burrows.

Camels have long legs and long hair to keep the heat of the sand away from their body.

In sand deserts, the Golden Mole dwells close beneath the surface. It's hardly audible.

Fennec Foxes have large ears that assist them shed heat and fuzzy soles on their feet to help them walk on hot sand.
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The major method for bringing down  an overheated water reptiles' body temperature is 'evaporating cooling.' As water evaporation takes place on a surface, it cools. Reptiles change their internal body temperatures to adapt to heat and cold.
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This is through evaporative cooling,as water evaporate from the surface it cool the surface , when coyote plant rythimically move air over the moist surface , mouth and throat , water evaporates bringing about cooling
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Desert animals keep cool by adapting to the harsh conditions of their environment. Some ways include burrowing underground, coming out at night, and having efficient ways of retaining water. Others, like camels, have special adaptations that allow them to regulate their body temperature.
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The first step in keeping cool in a hot weather environment is getting rid of all excess skin. This can be done by coldozoists, who by layer by layer deducted sweat from their skin, leading to a loss in heat. Another way to cool down is by cool-active cells in your skin which produce relaxing heat (nalage) when cool temperature approaches. Finally, by your skin's ability to produce-fiber and water droplets-the second in itself can help in the way mentioned.
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These are some techniques used by the desert creature to adapt heat 

1. Living underground to avoid heat.

2. Resting in burrows during heat of the day 
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Desert animals have evolved a variety of adaptions to help them keep cool. Some of them are:

!. Nocturnal animals: Many desert animals are active at night when temperatures are cool, avoiding the extreme heat of day. This is why you may see desert animals active at night.

2. Burrowing: Some desert animals burrow underground during the hottest part of day.

3. Estivation: Estivation is a state of inactivity similar to hibernation.

4. Camouflage: Some desert animals have light coloured fur or scales that reflects sunlight.

5. Sweating: Some animals such as camels sweat to cool down.
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It's through evaporative cooling. As water evaporates from a surface, it cools that surface. When a coyote pants, it rhythmically moves air over the moist surfaces of the mouth, throat, and tongue. Water is evaporated and these surfaces are cooled.
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It easily climbs up the largest of the mounds with padded feet. Obtains food from bushes with long neck. Kangaroo also quite animals.
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