A few nice animal photos images I found:
Image by puck90
Nice Images Of Animals photos
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Animal Heroes
Image by CircaSassy
This image is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. Attribution is not necessary. The original book is available at the Internet Archive (www.archive.org/details/animalheroesbein00setouoft ).
Animal heroes; being the histories of a cat, a dog, a pigeon, a lynx, two wolves & a reindeer and in elucidation of the same over 200 drawings (1905)
Molly: I can be Adopted at the North Attleboro Animal Shelter
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Molly: I can be Adopted at the North Attleboro Animal Shelter
Image by BenSpark
Molly: I can be Adopted at the North Attleboro Animal Shelter
SUNNYSIDE
Image by Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue
He's not so shy anymore!
Nice Animal World photos
A few nice animal world images I found:
Disney's Animal Kingdom 073
Image by Michael Kappel
Disney's Animal Kingdom Park
disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/animal-kingdom/
Picture taken in Orlando Florida at the Walt Disney World Park
View the high resolution image on my photo website
Pictures.MichaelKappel.com
AHI Treasures of Southern Africa 3-07 1777 N
A few nice animal game images I found:
AHI Treasures of Southern Africa 3-07 1777 N
Image by Corvair Owner
Part of the gang enjoying a fine meal at the Thornybush Game Lodge, South Africa.
AHI Treasures of Southern Africa 3-07 1779 N
Image by Corvair Owner
Part of the gang enjoying a fine meal at the Thornybush Game Lodge, South Africa.
AHI Treasures of Southern Africa 3-07 1780 N
Image by Corvair Owner
Part of the gang enjoying a fine meal at the Thornybush Game Lodge, South Africa.
Sept 18, 2009 5:01 PM : In Honor
A few nice animal protection images I found:
Sept 18, 2009 5:01 PM : In Honor
Image by Barbara.Doduk
FIV CATS
www.rapsociety.com/catsanctuary
October 13th, 2009 5:12 PM: Dubby
Image by Barbara.Doduk
www.rapsociety.com/catsanctuary/
Maine Coon
A few nice pet animals images I found:
Maine Coon
Image by Nicholas Erwin
This is my 6th month old Maine Coon kitten named Ziva. Just took this randomly last night and thought it came out great. I even did a 4X5 crop which is something I don't nomrally do, but I thought it worked for this one.
Gerry nach Beendigung seiner Arbeit! - Gerry after work!
Image by Jorbasa
Mai 2009
Susi und Struppi
Image by fleckchen
Nice Pictures Of Animals photos
Some cool pictures of animals images:
Naperville Ribfest 054
Image by Michael Kappel
Naperville Ribfest 2012
The Exchange Club of Naperville and the 2012 Ribfest was presented by the Exchange Club of Naperville, in cooperation with the City of Naperville and the Naperville Park District, Ribfest was held Friday, June 29 through Tuesday, July 3, 2012 in Knoch Park in Naperville. The Park was open on Friday, June 29 from 4 to 10 p.m. and from Saturday, June 30 through Tuesday, July 3 from noon to 10 p.m.
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Photograph taken by Michael Kappel at Ribfest in Naperville
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Naperville Ribfest 224
Image by Michael Kappel
Naperville Ribfest 2012
The Exchange Club of Naperville and the 2012 Ribfest was presented by the Exchange Club of Naperville, in cooperation with the City of Naperville and the Naperville Park District, Ribfest was held Friday, June 29 through Tuesday, July 3, 2012 in Knoch Park in Naperville. The Park was open on Friday, June 29 from 4 to 10 p.m. and from Saturday, June 30 through Tuesday, July 3 from noon to 10 p.m.
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Naperville Ribfest 051
Image by Michael Kappel
Naperville Ribfest 2012
The Exchange Club of Naperville and the 2012 Ribfest was presented by the Exchange Club of Naperville, in cooperation with the City of Naperville and the Naperville Park District, Ribfest was held Friday, June 29 through Tuesday, July 3, 2012 in Knoch Park in Naperville. The Park was open on Friday, June 29 from 4 to 10 p.m. and from Saturday, June 30 through Tuesday, July 3 from noon to 10 p.m.
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Photograph taken by Michael Kappel at Ribfest in Naperville
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Green and black stag beetle
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Green and black stag beetle
Image by aussiegall
I saved this little guy from drowning in the pond this afternoon. He sat very still for a while and let me take his pphoto while he recovered from his near death experience
:-)
'Green and black stag beetle' On Black
Kudu bull
Image by Arno Meintjes Wildlife
PICT0639
Kruger National Park
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Kruger National Park
Image by picmasta
Some pictures of a trip to South Africa in Oktober 2011.
Taken with an Canon Eos 60D post processed with Adobe Lightroom 3.
The world-renowned Kruger National Park offers a wildlife experience that ranks with the best in Africa. Established in 1898 to protect the wildlife of the South African Lowveld, this national park of nearly 2 million hectares, SANParks - Kruger National Park is unrivalled in the diversity of its life forms and a world leader in advanced environmental management techniques and policies.
Truly the flagship of the South African national parks, Kruger is home to an impressive number of species: 336 trees, 49 fish, 34 amphibians, 114 reptiles, 507 birds and 147 mammals.
www.sanparks.org/parks/kruger/
Howl
Image by breenzanemom
Taken at Wolf Park in Indiana. Unfortunately, all the pictures had to be taken through a fence, so some of them have "ghosting" of the fence. Wish I could have gotten "up close & personal".
Cool Animal Puppy images
Some cool animal puppy images:
PUPPY22-2
Image by becomeunreal
I babysat a chihuahua puppy for a day and I fell in love <333
PUPPY00-2
Image by becomeunreal
I babysat a chihuahua puppy for a day and I fell in love <333
Nice Video Of Animals photos
A few nice video of animals images I found:
20071205 - 142-4297 - Beavis sniffing vine
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
Beavis on the brick wall on the back of the shared patio in our side yard. It used to be a pig pen in the 1940s, but now there's a fance down the middle (you can see it in the right edge of the picture). Cats always walk past the fence to where you can't get them.
sniffing.
Beavis the cat, snow, vine.
side yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
December 5, 2007.
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... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
... View videos of Beavis the cat at www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ClintJCL&search_q...
A video of Beavis's first steps in the snow can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRu0eixMv0o
lone wolf up
Image by shannonkringen
late in the day just after the zoo closed the wolves were pacing around and kept looking at me and i got some video and pics of them both. so beautiful are they.
Nice Animals That Are Extinct photos
Some cool animals that are extinct images:
Natural History Museum - London
Image by nick.garrod
Artizen HDR 2.4.10 lock06
www.flickr.com/groups/artizenhdr/
Natural History Museum - Kensington London
The foundation of the collection was that of the Ulster doctor Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), which allowed his significant collections to be purchased by the British Government at a price well below their market value at the time. This purchase was funded by a lottery. Sloane's collection, which included dried plants, and animal and human skeletons, was initially housed in Montague House in Bloomsbury in 1756, which was the home of the British Museum. In the late 1850s, Professor Richard Owen, Superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum saw that the natural history departments needed a bigger, separate building.
Land in South Kensington was purchased, and in 1864 a competition was held to design the new museum. The winning entry was submitted by Captain Francis Fowke who died shortly afterwards. The scheme was taken over by Alfred Waterhouse who substantially revised the agreed plans, and designed the façades in his own idiosyncratic Romanesque style. The original plans included wings on either side of the main building, but these plans were soon abandoned for budgetary reasons. The space these would have occupied are now taken by the Earth Galleries and Darwin Centre.
Work began in 1873 and was completed in 1880. The new museum opened in 1881, although the move from the old museum was not fully completed until 1883.
Both the interiors and exteriors of the Waterhouse building make extensive use of terracotta tiles to resist the sooty climate of Victorian London. The tiles and bricks feature many relief sculptures of flora and fauna, with living and extinct species featured within the west and east wings respectively. This explicit separation was at the request of Owen, and has been seen as a statement of his contemporary rebuttal of Darwin's attempt to link present species with past through the theory of natural selection[1].
The central axis of the museum is aligned with the tower of Imperial College London (formerly the Imperial Institute) and the Royal Albert Hall and Albert Memorial further north. These all form part of the complex known colloquially as Albertopolis. Text from Wikepedia
Sacrificing humanness to save humans
Image by Pandiyan
Bonnet Monkey
Macaca radiata
Check out the hairtstyle. That stylish tuft gets her the name!
Monkeys are a common feature in India. We see them in so many places. It is one of the wild animals small children learn to recognise first. Their antics and exploits are used widely in stories be they folk tales, urban legends or even religious texts. One of the main characters in Ramayan, Hanuman is even revered as a God.
But search the web and you find very little about them. Not many scientific surveys, species classification behavioural descriptions. Of course things are changing now. Indian langurs lumped together in a bunch have recently got separated into more than half a dozen species.
However one curious fact. Go into scientific sites like medscape and others. You will find hundreds of research reports. Because rhesus monkeys and their cousins like this bonnet monkey have been the prime target of medical tests and trials. Our long removed cousins have been rendering us selfless service over the last so many decades sacrificing their health and even lives.
These animals are in no danger of going extinct because we need a lot of lab specimens.
`Leo Wonders`
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`Leo Wonders`
Image by AcolyteH
By Fiona Foster - created using an airbrush technique and involves many labour intensive hours. Available exclusively for sale at Acolyte Home & Gifts. Amazing detail on the fur, eyes whiskers and clouds... in fact the whole picture!
Mini Penguin
Image by jillmotts
From Ravelry: www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/joe-penguin
Ignoring my nonexistant sewing skills and the fact that I downsized this guy by half, he didn't turn out too bad! Definitely not as cute as the original, though!
Unfortunately you'll need a ravelry account to view the project.
Nice About Endangered Animals photos
Some cool about endangered animals images:
Desert Ecology Trail, Cactus Forest Drive, Saguaro National Park 4
Image by Ken Lund
Enormous cacti, silhouetted by the setting sun, for most of us the Giant Saguaro is the universal symbol of the American West. And yet, these majestic plants are only found in a small portion of the United States. Saguaro National Park protects some of the most impressive forests of these sub-tropical giants, on the edge of the modern City of Tucson.
www.nps.gov/sagu/index.htm
Saguaro National Park, located in the state of Arizona, is part of the United States national park system.
Saguaro National Park is divided into two sections, lying approximately 20 miles (32 km) east and 15 miles (24 km) west of the center of the city of Tucson, Arizona. Total area in 2002 was 143 square miles (91,327 acres) (370 km²) of which 111 square miles (289 km²) is designated wilderness. There is a visitor center in each section. Both are easily reached by car from Tucson, but there is no public transport into either section. Both sections conserve fine tracts of the Sonoran Desert, including ranges of significant hills, the Tucson Mountains in the west and the Rincon Mountains in the east. The park gets its name from the saguaro cactus which is native to the region. Many other kinds of cactus, including barrel cactus, cholla cactus, and prickly pear, are also abundant in the park. One endangered animal, the Lesser Long-nosed Bat, lives in the park part of the year during its migration, together with one threatened species, the Mexican Spotted Owl.
The park was established as Saguaro National Monument on March 1, 1933, and changed to a national park on October 14, 1994.
Facilities in the park include 150 miles (240 km) of well marked and maintained hiking trails, and shorter walking trails with interpretative information available. Hiking is not advisable during the hot summer months.
The Rincon Mountain District is located at the eastern edge of Tucson, Arizona; the east side of the park was the original National Monument. What is unique about this park is that it starts off in the Sonoran Desert and gradually gives way to a montane coniferous forest of the Rincon Mountains. The highest peak in this range is Mica Mountain, at an elevation of 8,666 feet (2641 m). While this side of the park has fewer Saguaros than its counterpart they remain larger in size, due to higher amounts of rainfall and run off from the Rincon Mountains.
The key feature of this district is its 8.3-mile (13.4 km) loop, which connects its two picnic areas and central trails. Recently after a lengthy road improvement project, and refurbishment of the Visitor Center, the Rincon District is fully open once more.
Hiking on this side of the park is readily accessible to visitors. There are trail heads present at the east end of Speedway and Broadway, but these trail heads are commonly used by horses and get heavy usage on the weekends. Off the park's loop road there are several additional trail heads. Each Visitor Center will supply a map of hiking trails on request.
And at the southern boundary of the park is the Hope Camp Trails which are also commonly used for horses. Access to the Hope Camp Trails is found at the end of Camino Loma Alta, however the road is no longer paved for the last couple hundred yards. This section of the park was added in 1991 when Congress authroized the purchase of 4,011 acres (16.23 km2).
The East Unit is open to camping, but camping is confined to backcountry sites, the shortest hike to one is 5.9 miles (9.5 km) to Douglas Springs Campground. Fees for campsites are .00 a night. While there are not spots for RV’s overnight in the park, Colossal Cave Mountain Park which is ten miles (16 km) down Old Spanish Trail from the park can provide such space.
Be aware that dogs are allowed on the trails, but must be on a leash at all times. Bicycles are confined to the loop road and the Cactus Forest Trail.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguaro_National_Park
The Sonoran Desert (sometimes called the Gila Desert after the Gila River or the Low Desert in opposition to the higher Mojave Desert) is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the northwest Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. It is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 311,000 km² (120,000 mi²). The desert contains a variety of unique plants and animals, such as the saguaro cactus. On January 17, 2001, 2,008 km² (496,337 acres) of the Sonoran Desert was set aside as the Sonoran Desert National Monument for the purpose of enhancing resource protection.[1]
The Sonoran Desert wraps around the northern end of the Gulf of California, from northeastern Baja California through southeastern California and southwestern Arizona to western Sonora. It is bounded on the west by the Peninsular Ranges, which separate it from the California chaparral and woodlands and Baja California desert ecoregions of the Pacific slope. To the north, the Sonoran Desert transitions to the cold-winter Mojave, Great Basin, and Colorado Plateau deserts. To the east, the deserts transition to the coniferous Arizona Mountains forests and Sierra Madre Occidental forests at higher elevations. The Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest marks the transition from the Sonoran Desert to the tropical dry forests of Sinaloa.
The desert's sub-regions include the Colorado Desert and Yuma Desert. In the 1957 publication, Vegetation of the Sonoran Desert, Forrest Shreve divided the Sonoran Desert into seven regions according to characteristic vegetation: Lower Colorado Valley, Arizona Upland, Plains of Sonora, Foothills of Sonora, Central Gulf Coast, Vizcaino Region, and Magdalena Region. (see An Overview of the Sonoran Desert, external link below). Many ecologists now consider Shreve's Vizcaino and Magdalena regions, which lie on the western side of the Baja California Peninsula, to be a separate ecoregion, the Baja California desert.
The Sonoran Desert includes 60 mammal species, 350 bird species, 20 amphibian species, 100+ reptile species, 30 native fish species, and more than 2000 native plant species. The Sonoran Desert area southwest of Tucson and near the Mexican border is vital habitat for the only population of Jaguars living within the United States.
Many plants not only survive the harsh conditions of the Sonoran Desert, but they actually thrive. Many have evolved to have specialized adaptations to the desert climate. The Sonoran Desert's biseasonal rainfall pattern results in more plant species than in the other North America deserts. The Sonoran Desert includes such plants from the agave family, palm family, cactus family, legume family, and many others.
Sonoran Desert near Tucson, AZ in DecemberThe Sonoran is the only place in the world where the famous saguaro cactus grows in the wild. Cholla, beavertail, hedgehog, fishhook, prickly pear, night blooming cereus, and organ pipe are other species of cactus found here. Cactus provide food and homes to many desert mammals and birds, with showy flowers in reds, pinks, yellows, and whites blooming most commonly from late March through June, depending on the species and seasonal temperatures.
Creosote bush and bur sage dominate valley floors. Indigo bush, Mormon tea, and mesquite are other shrubs that may be found. Wildflowers include desert sand verbena, desert sunflower, and evening primroses. Ascending from the valley up bajadas, various subtrees such as palo verde, ironwood, desert willow, and crucifixion thorn are common, as well as multi-stemmed ocotillo. Shrubs found at higher elevations include whitethorn acacia, fairy duster, and jojoba. In the desert subdivisions found on Baja California, cardon cactus, elephant tree, and boojum tree occur.[2] the California Fan Palm is also found in parts of the Sonoran Desert including areas of the Anza Borrego Desert State Park.[3]
The Sonoran Desert is home to seventeen aboriginal American cultures[citation needed].
The largest city in the Sonoran Desert is Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A., with a 2006 metropolitan population of about 4.2 million. [4] This metropolitan area in central Arizona is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. In the North Phoenix area, desert is losing ground to development at a rate of approximately 4,000 m2 (1 acre ) per hour.[5] The next largest cities are Tucson, in southern Arizona, U.S.A., with a metro area population of around 1 million,[4] and Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, whose municipality also has a population of around 900,000. The municipality of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico has a population of around 700,000.[6][7]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert
Desert Ecology Trail, Cactus Forest Drive, Saguaro National Park 8
Image by Ken Lund
Enormous cacti, silhouetted by the setting sun, for most of us the Giant Saguaro is the universal symbol of the American West. And yet, these majestic plants are only found in a small portion of the United States. Saguaro National Park protects some of the most impressive forests of these sub-tropical giants, on the edge of the modern City of Tucson.
www.nps.gov/sagu/index.htm
Saguaro National Park, located in the state of Arizona, is part of the United States national park system.
Saguaro National Park is divided into two sections, lying approximately 20 miles (32 km) east and 15 miles (24 km) west of the center of the city of Tucson, Arizona. Total area in 2002 was 143 square miles (91,327 acres) (370 km²) of which 111 square miles (289 km²) is designated wilderness. There is a visitor center in each section. Both are easily reached by car from Tucson, but there is no public transport into either section. Both sections conserve fine tracts of the Sonoran Desert, including ranges of significant hills, the Tucson Mountains in the west and the Rincon Mountains in the east. The park gets its name from the saguaro cactus which is native to the region. Many other kinds of cactus, including barrel cactus, cholla cactus, and prickly pear, are also abundant in the park. One endangered animal, the Lesser Long-nosed Bat, lives in the park part of the year during its migration, together with one threatened species, the Mexican Spotted Owl.
The park was established as Saguaro National Monument on March 1, 1933, and changed to a national park on October 14, 1994.
Facilities in the park include 150 miles (240 km) of well marked and maintained hiking trails, and shorter walking trails with interpretative information available. Hiking is not advisable during the hot summer months.
The Rincon Mountain District is located at the eastern edge of Tucson, Arizona; the east side of the park was the original National Monument. What is unique about this park is that it starts off in the Sonoran Desert and gradually gives way to a montane coniferous forest of the Rincon Mountains. The highest peak in this range is Mica Mountain, at an elevation of 8,666 feet (2641 m). While this side of the park has fewer Saguaros than its counterpart they remain larger in size, due to higher amounts of rainfall and run off from the Rincon Mountains.
The key feature of this district is its 8.3-mile (13.4 km) loop, which connects its two picnic areas and central trails. Recently after a lengthy road improvement project, and refurbishment of the Visitor Center, the Rincon District is fully open once more.
Hiking on this side of the park is readily accessible to visitors. There are trail heads present at the east end of Speedway and Broadway, but these trail heads are commonly used by horses and get heavy usage on the weekends. Off the park's loop road there are several additional trail heads. Each Visitor Center will supply a map of hiking trails on request.
And at the southern boundary of the park is the Hope Camp Trails which are also commonly used for horses. Access to the Hope Camp Trails is found at the end of Camino Loma Alta, however the road is no longer paved for the last couple hundred yards. This section of the park was added in 1991 when Congress authroized the purchase of 4,011 acres (16.23 km2).
The East Unit is open to camping, but camping is confined to backcountry sites, the shortest hike to one is 5.9 miles (9.5 km) to Douglas Springs Campground. Fees for campsites are .00 a night. While there are not spots for RV’s overnight in the park, Colossal Cave Mountain Park which is ten miles (16 km) down Old Spanish Trail from the park can provide such space.
Be aware that dogs are allowed on the trails, but must be on a leash at all times. Bicycles are confined to the loop road and the Cactus Forest Trail.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguaro_National_Park
The Sonoran Desert (sometimes called the Gila Desert after the Gila River or the Low Desert in opposition to the higher Mojave Desert) is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the northwest Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. It is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 311,000 km² (120,000 mi²). The desert contains a variety of unique plants and animals, such as the saguaro cactus. On January 17, 2001, 2,008 km² (496,337 acres) of the Sonoran Desert was set aside as the Sonoran Desert National Monument for the purpose of enhancing resource protection.[1]
The Sonoran Desert wraps around the northern end of the Gulf of California, from northeastern Baja California through southeastern California and southwestern Arizona to western Sonora. It is bounded on the west by the Peninsular Ranges, which separate it from the California chaparral and woodlands and Baja California desert ecoregions of the Pacific slope. To the north, the Sonoran Desert transitions to the cold-winter Mojave, Great Basin, and Colorado Plateau deserts. To the east, the deserts transition to the coniferous Arizona Mountains forests and Sierra Madre Occidental forests at higher elevations. The Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest marks the transition from the Sonoran Desert to the tropical dry forests of Sinaloa.
The desert's sub-regions include the Colorado Desert and Yuma Desert. In the 1957 publication, Vegetation of the Sonoran Desert, Forrest Shreve divided the Sonoran Desert into seven regions according to characteristic vegetation: Lower Colorado Valley, Arizona Upland, Plains of Sonora, Foothills of Sonora, Central Gulf Coast, Vizcaino Region, and Magdalena Region. (see An Overview of the Sonoran Desert, external link below). Many ecologists now consider Shreve's Vizcaino and Magdalena regions, which lie on the western side of the Baja California Peninsula, to be a separate ecoregion, the Baja California desert.
The Sonoran Desert includes 60 mammal species, 350 bird species, 20 amphibian species, 100+ reptile species, 30 native fish species, and more than 2000 native plant species. The Sonoran Desert area southwest of Tucson and near the Mexican border is vital habitat for the only population of Jaguars living within the United States.
Many plants not only survive the harsh conditions of the Sonoran Desert, but they actually thrive. Many have evolved to have specialized adaptations to the desert climate. The Sonoran Desert's biseasonal rainfall pattern results in more plant species than in the other North America deserts. The Sonoran Desert includes such plants from the agave family, palm family, cactus family, legume family, and many others.
Sonoran Desert near Tucson, AZ in DecemberThe Sonoran is the only place in the world where the famous saguaro cactus grows in the wild. Cholla, beavertail, hedgehog, fishhook, prickly pear, night blooming cereus, and organ pipe are other species of cactus found here. Cactus provide food and homes to many desert mammals and birds, with showy flowers in reds, pinks, yellows, and whites blooming most commonly from late March through June, depending on the species and seasonal temperatures.
Creosote bush and bur sage dominate valley floors. Indigo bush, Mormon tea, and mesquite are other shrubs that may be found. Wildflowers include desert sand verbena, desert sunflower, and evening primroses. Ascending from the valley up bajadas, various subtrees such as palo verde, ironwood, desert willow, and crucifixion thorn are common, as well as multi-stemmed ocotillo. Shrubs found at higher elevations include whitethorn acacia, fairy duster, and jojoba. In the desert subdivisions found on Baja California, cardon cactus, elephant tree, and boojum tree occur.[2] the California Fan Palm is also found in parts of the Sonoran Desert including areas of the Anza Borrego Desert State Park.[3]
The Sonoran Desert is home to seventeen aboriginal American cultures[citation needed].
The largest city in the Sonoran Desert is Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A., with a 2006 metropolitan population of about 4.2 million. [4] This metropolitan area in central Arizona is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. In the North Phoenix area, desert is losing ground to development at a rate of approximately 4,000 m2 (1 acre ) per hour.[5] The next largest cities are Tucson, in southern Arizona, U.S.A., with a metro area population of around 1 million,[4] and Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, whose municipality also has a population of around 900,000. The municipality of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico has a population of around 700,000.[6][7]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert
