Alejandro's Gift- Part 2- Unit 4, L:3

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• Botta's Pocket Gopher

• large ears keep it cool, large feet to run fast

• Arizona Pocket mouse

• wildcat, only found in North America, eats small mammals, barks when scared

• Black-Tailed Jack Rabbit

• spends time in underground burrows (up to 150 ft deep), live alone

• badger

• eats many kinds of seeds, can hibernate

• bobcat

• has a "mask" and lives in underground burrows, is fierce

Click on the Southwestern states.

• Colorado

• Arizona

• New Mexico

• Utah

• Virginia

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• Desert Tortoise

• can grow to 15 inches, stores water in puch beneath shell

• Collared Peccary

• eats prickly pear including the spines, looks like a wild pig

• Coatis

• travel in large groups, eat lizards and insects but mostly fruit

• Coyote

• run with tails down, up to 40 MPH and leap up to 14 feet!

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• Elf Owl

• red eyes, long bill

• Collared Peccary

• feeds on large insects, no bigger than a sparrow

• Costa's Hummingbird

• can hover, purple throated and only 3 and 1/2 inches long

• Curve-Billed Thrasher

• eats prickly pear including the spines, looks like a wild pig

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• Great Roadrunner

• Males red

  females brown

  patterned in black and white stripes

• Gambel's Quail

• eats snakes, lizards and scorpions, rarely flies

• Gila Woodpecker

• large tear dropped-shaped feather on head,

  cackles

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• Mesquite

• spiny tree, grows in large thickets

• Harris's Antelope Squirrel

• gets water from the food they eat, well camouflaged

• gray fox

• feeds on mesquite and other desert plants, lives in scrublands

• Merriam's Kangaroo Rat

• only canids that can climb, mostly nocturnal (night animals)

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• Phainopepla

• found in dry hills and sagebrush,

  small brown birds with white ring eyes

• Mourning Dove

• name comes from cooing, its mating call

• sage sparrows

• snatches mistletoe berries out of the air,

  has elegant crest on its head

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• Mule Deer

• can run 35 MPH and leap 25 feet,

  eats grass, twigs and fruit

• Saguaro

• uses cactus needles to hide the entrance to its home

• White-Throated Rat

• provides fruit for many desert creatures, a giant cactus