Wild animals native to arid lands include Arabian oryx, sand gazelles, addax antelopes, slender-horned gazelles, jackals, sand cats, fennec foxes, and bat-eared foxes, to name a few of the mammals. There are many kinds of birds and reptiles too. read more
In the hot, dry desert, moisture of any kind is hard to find. Dung contains moisture from the gut of the animal that expelled it. Instead of searching for rare watering holes the way wildebeest and antelope do, dung beetles wait for these larger animals to do the work of finding water for them. read more