Animals at the extremes: The desert environment

# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- define and use, or recognise definitions and applications of, each of the bold terms
- provide examples that show there is a continuum of desert climates and environments that link to diversity of flora and fauna
- explain, with examples, the thermoregulatory strategies of evaders, evaporators and endurers, and interpret relevant data
- describe the importance of integration of behaviour, anatomy, physiology and biochemistry in the study of animals that live in deserts
- explain physiological mechanisms of water conservation and cooling in named evaders, evaporators and endurers, and interpret relevant data.

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