Discover your sleepy neighbors, the ones who spend most of their lives underground.

Male red-spotted toad

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Ever wonder why the desert seems so barren with few animals in sight? It is not because they do not exist; after all you can see pictures of desert animals in books and on the TV and Internet.  The reason why you don’t see them every day is because you are either too busy driving down the road to stop and go outside and look for them, or because they are hiding from the desert sun waiting just for the right weather conditions to search for food and mates.

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