Life In The Hot Sahara Desert

!±8± Life In The Hot Sahara Desert

The Sahara Desert is the world's largest hot desert and is spread across 8.6 million quadrate kilometers in Northern Africa. The midpoint year round climatic characteristic in Sahara exceeds 30°C with the temperatures rising above 50 degree centigrade while summers and the winter temperatures falling below frozen point. With the daily climatic characteristic incompatibility ranging anywhere in the middle of the values -0.5 to 37.5 degree centigrade, the conditions are of course harsh and difficult to preserve life and this health is supplementary deteriorated due to the hot, dusty winds. The high temperatures while summer, scanty rainfall, and frozen winters, along with the severely dry weather make Sahara's weather very inhospitable. As a result, plant and animal people is sparse.

Plants and animals invent certain adaptations in order to adapt to life in the harsh desert conditions.

Desert plants possess very long roots that drill very deep into the earth, and their broad leaves are substituted with spines, and thick green stems in desert plants like cactus where the spines help in preventing immoderate water loss while the stem performs photosynthesis as well as holds water for a very long time. Xerophytes, grasses, shrubs, and trees comprise the tasteless vegetation in the Sahara desert.

Desert animals rarely come out in the hot sun and instead stay inexpressive while most part of the day and eat such foods which comprise a lot of water content. The desert animals are also smaller in size which minimizes water loss from their bodies. The animal species found in the Sahara comprise the desert hedgehog, gerbil, jerboa, cape hare, tasteless jackal, dorcas gazelle, oryx, dama deer, Nubian wild, barbary sheep, anubis baboon, spotted hyena, sand fox, Libyan striped weasel, the slender mongoose, rattlesnakes, kangaroo rats, kit foxes and numerous species of frogs, toads, crocodiles, lizards, chameleons, skinks, cobras snails, brine and algae shrimps.