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Desert Camel in America's southwest deserts - DesertUSA

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What is a Desert? Deserts of the US. Deserts of the World. How Animals Are Classified. Desert Roads and Trails. The Mojo on the Mojave. The Desert Camel Experiment. Camels in America's Southwest. The U S. Military Takes Notice. Wayne learned that there are two distinct species: the one-humped, or Arabian camel,. Known popularly as the “ship of the desert” and used primarily as a saddle animal; and the two-humped, or Bactrian,. A metal sculpture of camels near Borrego Springs, Ca. Natural History of Camels.

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Desert Plants - Cactus - Wildflowers - Flora - DesertUSA

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What is a Desert? Deserts of the US. Deserts of the World. How Animals Are Classified. Desert Roads and Trails. The Mojo on the Mojave. Cactus - Grasses - Shrubs - Trees - Wildflowers. Quick Links by Type of Plant. Trees, Shrubs, Grasses. How Do Plants Survive the Desert? Desert flora have adapted to the extremes of heat and aridity by using both physical and behavioral mechanisms, much like desert animals. The ingenuity and variety of these many adaptations are explored in Desert Plant Survival. When Wi...

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Barrel Cactus - Genus: Ferocactus - DesertUSA

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What is a Desert? Deserts of the US. Deserts of the World. How Animals Are Classified. Desert Roads and Trails. The Mojo on the Mojave. Meaning fierce or wild cactus, are always cylindrical or barrel shaped and are usually among the largest cacti of the North American deserts. All members of this genus have prominent ribs and are fiercely armed with heavy spines. In some species, one or more central spines are curved like a fishhook, accounting for the common name fishhook barrel cactus. There are a numb...

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The Discovery of the Peralta Stones and the Trail to the Lost Dutchman Mine - DesertUSA

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What is a Desert? Deserts of the US. Deserts of the World. How Animals Are Classified. Desert Roads and Trails. The Mojo on the Mojave. Discovery of the Peralta Stones. The Stone Crosses and The Latin Heart. The Trail to the Lost Dutchman Mine. Are these stones maps to the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine? Reportedly, the stone maps were found sometime in the late 1940’s by a. Until now, no one has been able to identify the end of the trail because they have failed to study all the pieces of the stone map set tog...

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Comanche War Trail - DesertUSA

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What is a Desert? Deserts of the US. Deserts of the World. How Animals Are Classified. Desert Roads and Trails. The Mojo on the Mojave. Comanche and Kiowa Raiding Parties. Comanche and Kiowa warriors favored the fall for raiding in Mexico. Fierce summer heat had abated. Southwest winds had calmed. Grazing remained plentiful and nutritious. Wild plums, berries, cactus fruit and other plant foods had ripened. Buffalo and other game had fattened. From Horsehead Crossing, the trail ran thirty miles southwest...

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The Collared Peccary - Javelina - DesertUSA

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What is a Desert? Deserts of the US. Deserts of the World. How Animals Are Classified. Desert Roads and Trails. The Mojo on the Mojave. Collared Peccary - Javelina. Peccaries have large heads and long snouts with thick coats of dark-gray, bristly hair and band of white hair (collar) around the neck. A mane of long, stiff hairs runs down the back from head to rump, where the scent gland is located. Collared peccaries have good hearing. Collared peccaries have a long snout. Territories are defended by the ...

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Tarantulas - DesertUSA

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What is a Desert? Deserts of the US. Deserts of the World. How Animals Are Classified. Desert Roads and Trails. The Mojo on the Mojave. Fearsome looking, the tarantulas diverse and the largest of the spiders hold a place in the folklore of cultures across the world. Surprisingly, they also become novel and treasured pets in the homes of some people. More surprisingly, they serve as delicacies at the dining tables of indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Photo by Jay Sharp. Worldwide Distribution of Tarantulas.

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Alvaro E. Garces Legal Assistant: October 2008

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Alvaro E. Garces Legal Assistant. Saturday, October 25, 2008. East Asia: Politics, Economy, and Society. Faculty - Group in Asian Studies, UC Berkeley. East Asian Languages and Cultures. Classical Japanese language and literature. Modern Japanese fiction, history of reading and narrative theory, film. Modern Chinese literature and culture. Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism. Late traditional and early modern Korean literature. Modern Japanese literature and culture. Friday, October 24, 2008.

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Cochise and Geronimo, The Chiricahua Apaches - DesertUSA

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What is a Desert? Deserts of the US. Deserts of the World. How Animals Are Classified. Desert Roads and Trails. The Mojo on the Mojave. Cochise, Geronimo and Mangas Coloradas. For generations the Apaches resisted white colonization of their homeland in the Southwest (presently New Mexico and Arizona) by both Spaniards and North Americans. In 1848, when gold was discovered in California, the Apaches were further threatened by incursions of white fortune-seekers on their way to the gold fields. In the ensu...

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Tarantula Hawk - photos - video - DesertUSA

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What is a Desert? Deserts of the US. Deserts of the World. How Animals Are Classified. Desert Roads and Trails. The Mojo on the Mojave. Tarantula hawk stings are the most painful of any USA insect. Several species of the wasps known as tarantula hawks inhabit the desert lands of the southwest. Pepsis formosa and Pepsis thisbe are probably the two most common. Wasps in the genus Hemipepsis are also known as tarantula hawks. The species are difficult to distinguish. Video of the Tarantula Hawk. If the wasp...