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Anonymous
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My final for Advanced biology is having me design my own desert mammal. I need to include various adaptations each body system uses to cope with the temperature (110-30 Degrees Fahrenheit), and lack of rainfall (~10 Inches a Year). It's set in the Sonoran desert, and I'm free to create anything i wish. What do you think?
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>> Anonymous
Freshman in College, have to be as realistic as possible, and don't need to create any new systems. Just the adaptations.
>> Anonymous
>>231345
>S­up /b/

wait a minute...
>> Anonymous
>>231352
I think we're kind of on a different level here. Look into biomimetics.
>> BitterAnon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
I have an idea. Forgive me if this seems a little bit out there, but maybe googling "sonoran desert adaptation" might give you some ideas? Like, say,
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Adaptations_of_desert_amphibians_and_reptiles
or
http://www.desertmuseum.org/programs/succulents_adaptation.html
or
http://www.erowid.org/archive/sonoran_desert_toad/balvarius.htm
or
http://www.loscabosrestaurantguide.com/desert.htm
>> Anonymous
>>231353
Thought it was funny.
>> Anonymous
I don't know if you could consider it a system, but there actually are important behavioral adaptations that desert animals use such as: finding shade, digging burrows, hibernating through dry or hot periods, sleeping through the day, etc.

Otherwise, maybe you could conceive of a mammal that somehow adapted to dispose of nitrogenous wastes as uric acid rather than urea, like birds which saves water tremendously, but... you'd have a damn hard time explaining that phylogenetically.
>> Anonymous
I had do an assignment exactly like this last year. Ending up getting a decent mark for it as well. How much detail do you have to go into??
>> Anonymous
>What do you think?
I think you should do your own fucking homework instead of asking 4chan to do it for you. Go back to /b/ since you love it so much