About Desert Animals

North America

All North American Animals Acorn Woodpecker American Badger Black Vulture Black-chinned Hummingbird Black-crowned Night Heron Black-headed Grosbeak Black-tailed Jackrabbit Black-vented Oriole Bobcat Brewers Blackbird Broad-billed Hummingbird Burrowing Owl Chuckwalla Coyote Javelina (or Collared Peccary) Mexican Wolf Slender-horned Gazelle Swift Fox Mammals American Badger Black-tailed Jackrabbit Bobcat Coyote Javelina (or Collared Peccary) Mexican Wolf Slender-horned Gazelle Swift Fox Birds Acorn Woodpecker Black Vulture Black-chinned Hummingbird Black-crowned Night Heron Black-headed Grosbeak Black-vented Oriole Brewers Blackbird Broad-billed Hummingbird Burrowing Owl Reptiles Chuckwalla Amphibians

North American Animals

North American Desert Animals display a wide range of adaptations and inhabit niches similar to their counterparts from other continents. One example of this parallel is peccaries in North America and swine from Africa. The peccary (or javelina) is native to the Americas, while true pigs (domestic swine, warthogs, etc.) are native to Africa. Although similar in appearance, they are completely unrelated. Both eat similar foods and have similar social structures, as well as other adaptations. True pigs occur in other parts of the world due only to introduction by human settlers.