His interests focused on the desert fauna, especially of the Sonoran Desert.

Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e. g. the " Sonoran Desert fauna " or the " Burgess Shale fauna ".

The Colorado Desert is home to many unique flora and fauna, many of which can be found nowhere else on the planet.

The entire area is covered by thick vegetation, has abundant natural resources in its perennial water supplies, natural shelters, rich forest flora and fauna, and bears a significant resemblance to similar rock art sites such as Kakadu National Park in Australia, the cave paintings of the Bushmen in Kalahari Desert, and the Upper Paleolithic Lascaux cave paintings in France.

One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain ( 1903 ) describes the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.

The flora and fauna of the American Southwest are on display in the glass-domed " Sonoran Desert ," which houses ocelots, coatis, a number of bat species, and a variety of free-flight birds.

Its landforms, fauna and flora, etc., are all similar to the Great Sandy Desert.

The mountain systems include: the southeastern Transverse Ranges ( the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains ) in the Mojave Desert north and northeast of the Los Angeles basin and Inland Empire ; and the northern Peninsular Ranges ( San Jacinto, Santa Rosa, and Laguna Mountains ), which separate the Colorado Desert ( western Sonoran Desert ) from lower coastal Southern California.

Other appearances include: John Hewson in The Soufflé Rises ( series 1 ); Pat Cash in The Desert Angel ; Cheryl Kernot in We Ain't Got Dames ( series 1 ); Bert Newton ; Amanda Keller and Anne Fulwood in This Night of Nights ( series 1 ); Glenn Ridge in Add Sex and Stir and Office Mole ( series 2 ); Glenn Robbins and Molly Meldrum in Add Sex and Stir, George Negus in Add Sex and Stir and Dick on the Line ( series 3 ) and Ian Baker-Finch in A Hole in the Heart.

Established stations include the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station ( FMARS ) and the Mars Desert Research Station ( MDRS )

Prominent glacial features include Somes Sound and Bubble Rock, both part of Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island.

Towns providing access to the South Australian edge of the Simpson Desert include Innaminka to the south and Oodnadatta to the southwest ; and from the eastern ( Queensland ) side include Birdsville, Bedourie, Thargomindah and Windorah.

Protected areas of the ecoregion include the Simpson Desert, Goneaway, Lochern, Bladensburg, Witjira and Lake Eyre National Parks as well as the Simpson Desert Conservation Park, Innamincka Regional Reserve and Simpson Desert Regional Reserve.

Specific ecoregions of Western Australia include: the sandstone gorges of The Kimberley on the northern coast and below that areas of dry grassland ( Ord Victoria Plain ) or semi-desert ( Western Australian Mulga shrublands ), with Tanami Desert inland from there.

Notable films from this period include: La Dolce Vita, 8½ ; La Notte ; L ' Eclisse, The Red Desert ; Blowup ; Satyricon ; Accattone ; The Gospel According to St. Matthew ; Theorem ; Winter Light ; The Silence ; Persona ; Shame ; A Passion ; Au Hasard Balthazar ; Mouchette ; Last Year at Marienbad ; Chronique d ' un été ; Titicut Follies ; High School ; Salesman ; La jetée ; Warrendale ; Knife in the Water ; Repulsion ; The Saragossa Manuscript ; El Topo ; A Hard Day's Night ; and the cinema verite Dont Look Back.

Other fictional dream worlds include the Dreamlands of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle and The Neverending Storys world of Fantasia, which includes places like the Desert of Lost Dreams, the Sea of Possibilities and the Swamps of Sadness.

Occupation of the San Rafael region dates back thousands of years to include people of the Desert Archaic Culture who were followed by those of the Fremont culture who inhabited present-day Emery County from about A. D. 500 to about A. D. 1300.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

Notable racehorses from New Zealand include Cardigan Bay, Carbine, Nightmarch, Sunline, Desert Gold and Rising Fast.

In spring, wildflowers include spider orchids, Azure Sun Orchids, Desert Heath-myrtles and Poached-egg Daisies.

These schools include Sunrise Elementary School, Coyote Canyon Elementary School, Desert Valley Elementary School, Diamondback Elementary School, Bullhead City Junior High School, and Fox Creek Junior High School.

Others include The Bullhead City Bee, The Needles Desert Star, The Laughlin Times, and The Mohave County Standard.

Private schools in Yucca Valley include Our Lady of the Desert, a Christian school for K-12 ; Joshua Springs Christian School, non-denominational affiliation for PK-12 ; Grace Christian School, Brethren affiliation for K-12 ; Hi-Desert SDA Elementary, a 1-6, Seventh Day Adventist affiliation school ; and Yucca Valley Christian School, affiliated with The Assembly of God, for PK-12.

Schools in the district include Mount Desert Island High School, Conners Emerson School, Tresnton Elementary School, Pemetic Elementary School, Frenchboro Elementary School, Tremont Consolidated School, Mount Desert Elementary School, Swan's Island Elementary School and

The vast Qizilqum ( Turkic for " red sand "-- Russian spelling Kyzyl Kum ) Desert, shared with southern Kazakhstan, dominates the northern lowland portion of Uzbekistan.

Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Peniakoff DSO MC, a Belgian of White Russian descent, was called " Popski " by Bill Kennedy Shaw, the Intelligence Officer of the Long Range Desert Group, because his signallers had trouble with the spelling of his surname.

The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara Gum (“ Black Sand ”) ( Turkmen: Garagum, Russian: Каракумы ) is a desert in Central Asia.

These range from trekking in the Sahara Desert to climbing Mont Blanc ; scuba diving to mountain biking ; chess club to Russian Scrabble to name but a few.

Born to Russian immigrants, Lewitzky spent her childhood in a utopian socialist colony in the Mojave Desert, and on a ranch in San Bernardino.

Among the artefacts that the Museum possesses and displays is General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Steyr Automobile 1500A Afrika Korps Staff Car, captured by the Royal Sussex Regiment in Tunisia, as well as a Mark III Centurion Tank, a Russian bugle rescued from the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade, a uniform of the Desert Rats worn at the Battle of El Alamein in 1942 and a Gulf War camp of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars.

Loulan or Kroran ( ), known to Russian archaeologists as Krorayina, was an ancient kingdom based around an important oasis city along the Silk Road already known in the 2nd century BCE on the north-eastern edge of the Lop Desert.

The soundtrack to " White Sun of the Desert " is one of the most celebrated of Russian film.

All crew members boarding Russian space flights are committed to watch " White Sun of the Desert " as well.

* 1998: State Prize of the Russian Federation category Literature and Arts for year 1997, for the film White Sun of the Desert

In the same tradition as The White Sun of the Desert and The Bodyguard, The Seventh Bullet is set after the Russian Civil War which ended in the 1920s when Soviet power established itself in Central Asia in the wake of the Basmachi rebellion.

Christ in the Desert, or Christ in the Wilderness () is a painting by Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi, reflecting the Fasting of Christ.

The Russian art researcher Georgy Wagner wrote the article " On the Interpretation of I. N. Kramskoi's Painting " Christ in the Desert " ( Russian: " Об истолковании картины И. Н.

They are found in the driest parts of the arid climate zone. In the USDA soil taxonomy they are classified as Gypsids ( USDA Soil Taxonomy ), in the Russian soil classification they are called Desert soils ( USSR ).

Desert animals such as the desert tortoise, rattlesnakes, bighorn sheep and lynx are the most notable species.

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Reptiles and amphibians at the zoo include Aldabra giant tortoise, Burmese python, carpet python, Desert tortoise, European pond turtle, giant Asian hill tortoise, Gila monster, South American red-footed tortoise, and African bullfrog ( Burrowing Frog ).

Desert animals such as the desert tortoise, chameleon, puma, rattlesnakes and others are the main wildlife.

Scientists have divided the desert tortoise into two types: the Agassiz's and Morafka's Desert tortoises, with a possible third type in northern Sinaloan and southern Sonora, Mexico.

Desert tortoise populations in some areas have declined by as much as 90 % since the 1980s and the Mojave population is listed as threatened.

The Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee protects approximately 5, 000 acres of desert tortoise habitat from human activity.

Seroepidemiology of upper respiratory tract disease in the desert tortoise in the western Mojave Desert of California.

Seroprevalence of Mycoplasma agassizii and tortoise herpesvirus in captive desert tortoises ( Gopherus agassizii ) from the Greater Barstow Area, Mojave Desert, California.

The African spurred tortoise is native to the Sahara Desert and the Sahel, a transitional ecoregion of semi-arid grasslands, savannas, and thorn shrublands found in the countries of Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan In these arid regions the tortoise excavates burrows in the ground to get to areas with higher moisture levels spending the hottest part of the day in these burrows.

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