PICTURES OF DESERT CRITTERS

The following photographs were taken by the Hiking Viking (unless otherwise indicated) during 1998-99.

The coyote is a symbol of the American Southwest,
this one seen near Ninemile Draw, AZ.

The ubiquitous jackrabbit, which is really a hare and not a rabbit.

A "bull snake" near Horseshoe Bend, Arizona.
"Bull snake" is the local name for a gopher snake.

Western rattlesnake near Greenehaven, Arizona.

A short-horned lizard, locally called a "horny toad", in Greenehaven, AZ.

A horned lizard that appears to have lost its tail, near Ninemile Draw, AZ.

A collared lizard in Tibbet Canyon, UT.

Long-nosed leopard lizard in Buckskin Gulch, Utah.

An unknown type of lizard seen on the Cockscomb in Utah. Can anyone help?

A desert spiny lizard on my porch in Greenehaven.

A chuckwalla seen at Lees Ferry, AZ.
It pumps up its body to lodge itself firmly in the crack.

Hatching tadpoles in a desert puddle near Greenehaven.

Tadpoles and "fairy shrimp" in a desert pool near Greenehaven, with closeup of "new-born" frog and shrimp.

Tadpole shrimp aka. "the living fossil" in a desert pool near Greenehaven.
(Photo by Dan Scannell, 1998)

A praying mantis on a house cactus in Greenehaven.
(Photo by Dan Scannell, 1998)

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