Wild animals of the Arab world

📖 In short

Many amazing wild animals live in the Arab world, adapted to hot deserts, high mountains and long coastlines. Among them are the gazelle, the oryx, the ibex, the wolf, the fox, the hyena, the hedgehog and the jerboa, as well as many birds like the bustard and the falcon.

🤩 Did you know?

The camel is one of the best-known animals of the Arab world, and can go without water for many days.
Many kinds of small bats live in the Arab world.
The spiny-tailed lizard lives in the desert and hardly ever drinks water.
The striped hyena weighs about 23 kilograms or more.

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🌟 Desert champions

Desert animals live in great heat with little water, so they sleep in burrows by day and come out at night when it's cooler. The jerboa hops on its long back legs, and the fennec fox has big ears that cool its body.

🔍 The Arabian oryx

The Arabian oryx is a beautiful white antelope with two long straight horns. It nearly died out, but people protected it and helped it breed, and now it lives in the desert again.

💡 Mountain dwellers

In the mountains live the Nubian ibex, which climbs rocks skillfully, and the rare Arabian leopard, which scientists are trying to save from extinction.

🎯 Let's protect our animals

Many wild animals in the Arab world have become rarer because of too much hunting and the destruction of their homes. So Arab countries have set up nature reserves to protect them.