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How do small animals like insects and scorpions escape the heat of the desert?
Saurabhmukherjee
- They have thick skin, scales or spines.
- Some burrow underground to escape the Sun.
- Some animals have become used to the heat overtime, so it doesn't affect them as it does humans.
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