The Desert Horned Viper's range (or area it lives in): is all of the Sahara Desert and from Morocco to Mauritania on the western side and Egypt and Sudan on the eastern side. Its also reaches Arabian Peninsula.(all dry areas, it likes loose/fine sand will less harsh temperatures).
Diet: The Viper eats: Lizards, small mammals (rodents), and birds. it waits to ambush its prey and only its horns/eyes are above the sand, when it sees its prey it explodes out of the sand extremely fast and it and bites releasing its poison to assist in killing its next meat.
Adaptations: The Viper can create a rasping warning sound by rubbing obliquely angled saw toothed scales along its sides. It also has 13 different toxins that can assist in getting food: massive local swelling, acute pain, excessive bleeding (or clotting), nausea, abdominal pain, sweating, exhaustion, kidney failure, heart irregularities, mental disorder, severe headaches, paralyzed facial muscles, imagined evil smells.
Shelter: Stays in abandoned burrows or beneath rocky outcrops and also will sequestered in sand.
Other Animals: (predators): Large Birds and Sand Cats (prey): Rats, Mice, small birds, smaller snakes (different species) and lizards.
Size/life expectancy: at birth the Viper is about 4-6 inches(8-12cm), when fully grown it can be 12-24 inches(30-60cm) females are bigger then males. Average life is 15 years.
Water source: they get their water from oases (pools of water) and from the prey they kill.
The Desert Horned Viper's range (or area it lives in): is all of the Sahara Desert and from Morocco to Mauritania on the western side and Egypt and Sudan on the eastern side. Its also reaches Arabian Peninsula.(all dry areas, it likes loose/fine sand will less harsh temperatures).
Diet: The Viper eats: Lizards, small mammals (rodents), and birds. it waits to ambush its prey and only its horns/eyes are above the sand, when it sees its prey it explodes out of the sand extremely fast and it and bites releasing its poison to assist in killing its next meat.
Adaptations: The Viper can create a rasping warning sound by rubbing obliquely angled saw toothed scales along its sides. It also has 13 different toxins that can assist in getting food: massive local swelling, acute pain, excessive bleeding (or clotting), nausea, abdominal pain, sweating, exhaustion, kidney failure, heart irregularities, mental disorder, severe headaches, paralyzed facial muscles, imagined evil smells.
Shelter: Stays in abandoned burrows or beneath rocky outcrops and also will sequestered in sand.
Other Animals: (predators): Large Birds and Sand Cats (prey): Rats, Mice, small birds, smaller snakes (different species) and lizards.
Size/life expectancy: at birth the Viper is about 4-6 inches(8-12cm), when fully grown it can be 12-24 inches(30-60cm) females are bigger then males. Average life is 15 years.
Water source: they get their water from oases (pools of water) and from the prey they kill.