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Visitors to Dead Horse Point State Park often ask us, “Where are the animals?” or, “Why doesn’t anything live here?”  Well, the park is home to a variety of wildlife!  The problem is that, because we live in a hot desert, most of the wildlife here is either nocturnal or crepuscular.  Since humans are mostly active during the day, we don’t get to see a lot of these nighttime critters!

Rangers at Dead Horse Point have set up a trail camera in remote areas of the park and near potholes, which are rare, natural water sources (more on those in a later post!).  The camera caught a few animals, pictured below.  As you can see below, the camera did not go unnoticed!