Welcome to Plum Landing!
Hello, Blorb.
Hello, Blorbians.
Hello, my fellow Blorbians.
Friends from Blorb, hello!
Here's another Plum post from Earth.
Today, the desert.
Like most Blorbians,
I used to think deserts were just blazing hot sand dunes,
completely dry and pretty much dead.
But now I know the truth!
First of all, there's a lot of desert on Earth.
If you smooshed all the land into one spot,
this is how much desert.
So because you find deserts everywhere,
from the tops of mountains all the way down to Antarctica,
guess what?
They're not all alike!
Some deserts, like the ones in Australia, Africa and the U.S.,
are hot.
Others, like Antarctica and the Gobi Desert in Mongolia,
are cold.
And really, even the hot deserts can get cold at night.
Now, I know what you're thinking, my Blorbian friends.
You're thinking,
"If some deserts are hot and some are cold,
what makes them all deserts?"
Fantastic question, and here's the answer.
Deserts are places that get very little rainfall.
But-- and this is the amazing part--
where there's even the teensiest bit of water, there's life.
So deserts aren't dead at all.
There's plenty of life,
though sometimes, you have to look for it.
I sent my five earthlings to the Australian desert,
and they came back with a gazillion animal pictures!
Well, .
Anyway, they found lots of small animals:
frogs, ants, spiders and bilbies,
and even some big ones like emus, kangaroos and camels.
All of these animals have an adaptation,
a special part of their body
that makes it easier for them to find or store liquids.
Want to see my favorite of all adaptation?
Watch this!
The thorny devil.
He soaks up water with his skin,
then rolls it off his back into his mouth.
As Oliver would say, "Awesome!"
So that's all for now.
From beautiful, splendiferous planet Earth,
this is Plum signing off.