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Desert & Grassland Animals
Survivors of the driest, harshest, most wide-open places on the planet.
13 weird animals on record
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Bat
Weirdness 7/10
Chameleon
Weirdness 8/10
Coyote
Weirdness 6/10
Dung Beetle
Weirdness 8/10
Fennec Fox
Weirdness 7/10
Giant Isopod
Weirdness 8/10
Horned Lizard
Weirdness 9/10
Kangaroo Rat
Weirdness 8/10
Naked Mole Rat
Weirdness 9/10
Pink Fairy Armadillo
Weirdness 9/10
Secretary Bird
Weirdness 8/10
Thorny Devil
Weirdness 8/10
Vampire Bat
Weirdness 8/10
◆ Learn
Check what you know about desert & grassland animals
A quick mixed self-check across these animals. No score — tap Real or Fake and see the answer.
“The Bat is the only mammal on Earth that can truly fly.”
“The Bat has a male that snaps open a cape of jet-black feathers to win a mate.”
“The Chameleon fires a sticky tongue twice the length of its whole body in about a hundredth of a second.”