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  • What do pronghorn mostly eat?
    Desert plants and fruits
  • How do sharp spines help a saguaro?
    They scare off water-seeking animals
  • Where do Sonoran pronghorn live?
    Arizona and Mexico
  • Where did bighorn sheep live for thousands of years?
    The Sonoran Desert
  • Who asked the Boy Scouts to help protect the desert?
    Major Frederick R. Burnham
  • What made the bighorn sheep begin to disappear?
    People moved in and built mines
  • Who has longer horns on a pronghorn?
    The males
  • Why are pronghorn called "desert ghosts"?
    They are very shy and hard to see
  • Name one saguaro adaptation.
    It stores water for a long time
  • When do saguaros start growing arms?
    At around 100 years old
  • What happened on April 2
    1939?,An area became a wildlife refuge
  • About how big is the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge?
    About 665,400 acres
  • What big idea do both passages share?
    People and nature can work together to protect desert life
  • Who is working to protect the pronghorn?
    The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service with Mexican conservationists
  • The refuge is home to many special ____
    Plants and animals
  • How fast can a frightened pronghorn run?
    About 60 miles per hour
  • How fast does a young saguaro grow?
    About one inch in ten years
  • Where do saguaro cacti grow?
    Only in the Sonoran Desert
  • What is the refuge called today?
    Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
  • Why do people now visit the Kofa Refuge?
    To enjoy the animals and plants
  • What do the ribs of a saguaro do?
    They swell to hold more water
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