For the majority of animal desert, need to drink to survive, they must recover the precious liquid in the flesh of their prey.

• Camels, goats and camels are, of course, animals that come to mind but they are animals domesticated by man. The camel has always been the favorite animal of nomads, because of its well-known qualities of endurance and speed.
• The large yellow scorpion tail us is also well known. It can measure up to 10 cm long.
• The grey monitor lizard, naturally irascible and dark in color
• The sand viper with a flat head and triangular shape live in the sand with, also called Sidewinder
• The fennec fox also lives across the Sahara. The fennec spends the day at the shelter in its burrow. At night, they hunt insects and rodents. Its highly developed hearing, allow it to avoid unnecessary expenditure of energy to know the location of its prey.
• The Ostrich has become rare because it is hunted
• The Addax, big white antelope is an endangered species (mainly because of hunting). Adapted to the desert, it can remain for months without drinking, or even an entire year.
• Dorcas gazelles never drink. The water extracted from the foliage they consume.
• The cheetah lives in Saharan Niger, Mali and Chad. There remaining is only a few hundred. It avoids any human presence, the cheetah fled the sun from April to October. It lives in shrubs such as acacias and balanites.
• The Ganga has the peculiarity of nesting far from the oasis. For watering brood, the male does not hesitate to travel long distances to find a water point. It stores water in its plumage particularly absorbent and returned to its chicks.

There are of course other animals in the desert (of birds), but the animals mentioned above are most representative of the Sahara.