I visited the Sonoran Desert Museum on my last trip out of town. The Sonoran Desert Museum presents desert wildlife in the actual desert in many cases. Stay hydrated, get there early, and don’t forget your hat and sunscreen. Desert temperatures are extreme in the summer months. During our visit, the thermometer crossed 100 degrees!
If you like animals, please check out the Reid Park Zoo gallery, also a stop on my visit.
What are you? 
Is that a cardinal? 
Is that a cardinal? 
Coyote lounging in the shade 
Coyote looks hot! 
Gila Monster exhibit at the Sonoran Desert Museum outside Tucson 
Salamander exhibit 
Bee pollinating and harvesting from a pretty purple flower 
Purple flowers blooming in the desert 
Yellow cactus bloom 
Toad exhibit 
Poisonous toads 
Saguaro cactus in bloom 
Desert deer 
Flying ants, I think. Ewww 
Lizard on a rock 
Brilliant red and orange flower bloom 
White bloom on a saguaro cactus 
Sonoran Desert landscape 
Prickly cactus telling everything to stay away! Still looks like a teddy bear, kinda… 
Prickly cactus telling everything to stay away! 
Javelina resting in the shade 
Desert wolf 
Desert flowers in bloom 
Saguaro cactus blooms 
Saguaro cactus blooms 
Saguaro cactus blooms 
Birb poking its head out of it’s Saguaro cactus nest 
Desert bobcat napping in the shade 
Perched lizard 
Frog? Toad? I don’t remember… 
Frog? Toad? I don’t remember… 
Desert jackrabbit 
Wild hare or rabbit 
Wild hare or rabbit 
Rattlesnake exhibit 
Desert landscape 
Desert scenery 
Desert flowers in bloom 
Rock squirrel 
Cave exhibit 
Cave Stalactite exhibit 
Stalactite exhibit 
Diamondback rattlesnake
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