How to be cool in the desert
WITH summertime temperatures in the shade—if you can find any—exceeding 50°C, desiccating winds and no water, surviving a day in the Arabian desert is hot work. The local animals, therefore, are usually nocturnal. During the day they dig burrows and hunker down out of the sun.
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