How do desert animal get water?

Answer 1

Some animals get their water from cactus's, because inside cactus's is water. That's how they grow there spikes and the animals that get there water from the cactus's are tough and don't care about the spikes hitting them.

• Desert animals have power for surviving into desert for more years. Actually when they get to drink water they drink lots of water some of them were stored and some of them were used so by these method they survive more year. In desert in many years rain comes and small pound will formed and desert animal take the water from there and store it.

Answer 2

Survival

Since water is so scarce, most desert animals get their water from the food they eat: succulent plants, seeds, or the blood and body tissues of their prey. But they must carefully conserve the little water they obtain in this way, so desert animals prevent water leaving their bodies in a number of different ways.

Some, like kangaroo rats and lizards, live in burrows which do not get too hot or too cold and have more humid (damp) air inside. These animals stay in their burrows during the hot days and emerge at night to feed.

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Saving water

Other animals have bodies designed to save water. Scorpions and wolf Spiders have a thick outer covering which reduces moisture loss. The kidneys of desert animals concentrate urine, so that they excrete less water.

The camel has a number of adaptations to desert life. Its body temperature rises and falls with the air temperature, so the camel does not lose water through sweating or panting. It can drink large amounts of water at one time and, using the fat store in its hump, can survive as long as 2 weeks without water.