Even though spotting animals in the desert is sometimes very difficult, even the deadliest predators can leave clues behind.
Whether you're looking for an amazing species like sand fox and sand hare out in the desert, you can’t easily find these creatures have left their mark. Use the guides below to help identify what you find.
Here are the marks of species that are active at night and early in the morning.
Leaf Nosed Viper
This snake is the deadliest predator of the desert and extremely poisonous and has caused serious infection after biting and, reportedly, has caused deaths.
Leaf Nosed Viper
Leaf Nosed Viper Mark
Sand Fox
This fox habitat includes sand and in the stony deserts. In Pakistan, they have been found in open and stony habitats often with scattered vegetation cover, including a few herb and grass species.
Sand Fox
Sand Fox foot mark
Sand Cat
Sand cat (Felis margarita), well known as the sand dune cat lives in true deserts. This cat inhabits both sandy and stony desert, it is well adapted to the extremes of a desert environment and tolerant of extremely hot conditions of deserts.
Sand Cat
Sand Cat foot mark