Desert Animals And Plants Food Chain. Secondary consumers prey on the primary consumers. The addax antelopes are highly adapted to live in the harsh desert conditions and can sustain themselves without water for indefinite periods of time.
In the food chain everything is a cycle: They are the most preyed upon creatures, the food of lizards, rodents and desert mice. Sand, sunlight, little amount of water, air, and hot temperature.
For example, grass produces its own food from sunlight.
Desert animals mostly feed on plants, insects, carcasses and other animals. The desert biome consists of plants including cacti, grass, palm trees, desert willow, mesquites, saguaros, sage brush, desert milkweed, etc. The bottom level of the food chain contains the primary producers which include wildflowers and sagebrush. Sand, sunlight, little amount of water, air, and hot temperature.