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Steelpan: National Colours of Trinidad and Tobago [] Red, White and Black National Watchwords Discipline, Production, Tolerance. [] The national Watchwords was established by the late first Prime Minister Dr. Eric Williams, when Trinidad and Tobago achieved independence in 1962. [10] [11]
They are desert-dwelling animals, which can have horn-like protrusions over their eyes, and are ambush predators, though not nearly large enough to take prey items much larger than a mouse or small lizard. [citation needed] Leonardo da Vinci wrote the following on the cerastes:
This is a list of mammals of Arizona. It includes species native to the U.S. state of Arizona and mammals accidentally introduced into the state. However, it does not include domesticated animals that become feral and cause major disruptions to various ecosystems. [1] [2]
The fennec fox's large ears help keep it cool: when the blood vessels dilate, blood from the body cycles in and dissipates over the expanded surface area. [1]A xerocole (from Greek xēros / ˈ z ɪ r oʊ s / 'dry' and Latin col(ere) 'to inhabit'), [2] [3] [4] is a general term referring to any animal that is adapted to live in a desert.
Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors. Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except Antarctica. This list contains circa 2,700 species in 518 genera in the order Rodentia. [1]
Desert vegetation in Wadi Rum, southern Jordan. The wildlife of Jordan includes its flora and fauna and their natural habitats . Although much of the country is desert, it has several geographic regions, each with a diversity of plants and animals adapted to their own particular habitats.
Cerastes cerastes, commonly known as the Saharan horned viper [4] or the desert horned viper, [5] is a species of viper native to the deserts of Northern Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula and Levant. It is often easily recognized by the presence of a pair of supraocular "horns", although hornless individuals do occur. [4]