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it suits him fine 



NOT ALL THE ANSWERS I GET WHEN I ASK THE QUESTION 



"How do you live in the desert?" are as simple as that of 

 the ground squirrel who does not stay on the ground* 

 What then are some of the others? 



Some creatures, it must be admitted, behave like the 

 pampered part-time human inhabitants who run away to 

 the mountains when the desert is being most exuberantly 

 itself. These I tolerate as I do their human analogues. But 

 it is we year-round residents who interest me most. And 

 I soon noticed one grand persistent difference between the 



